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Title: | Cancer-related information seeking and scanning behaviors among older Chinese adults : examining the roles of fatalistic beliefs and fear | Authors: | Leung, DYP Chow, TT Wong, EML |
Issue Date: | Dec-2017 | Source: | Geriatrics, Dec. 2017, , v. 2, no. 4, p. 1-9 | Abstract: | Effective communication in health information plays an important role in health promotion and cancer prevention. Cancer-related information acquisition can happen via active and purposeful seeking, but may also happen less purposely via the routine use of media and interactions with other people (called scanning). We examined seeking and scanning behaviors regarding cancer prevention in older Chinese adults, identified commonly used sources of information of such behaviors, and examined their associations with fatalistic beliefs and cancer fear. A convenience sample of 224 community-dwelling adults aged >= 60 were recruited between May and July in 2013 in Hong Kong. Results suggested that cancer information scanning (79.5%) was more common than information seeking (30.4%) among our participants. Health professional was the most popular source for both scanning (78.7%) and seeking (58.8%) behaviors regarding cancer information. Fatalistic beliefs was significantly and negatively associated with seeking behaviors (OR = 0.50) but not scanning behaviors, and cancer fear showed no relationship with either behavior. This study shows that the cancer information seeking and scanning behaviors were still suboptimal in this age group and adds to the knowledge regarding the associations between fatalistic beliefs and fear with cancer information seeking and scanning behaviors among older Chinese adults. | Keywords: | Cancer information Seeking and scanning behaviors Fatalistic beliefs Cancer fear Aged |
Publisher: | MDPI | Journal: | Geriatrics | EISSN: | 2308-3417 | DOI: | 10.3390/geriatrics2040038 | Rights: | © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Leung, D.Y.P.; Chow, T.T.; Wong, E.M.L. Cancer-Related Information Seeking and Scanning Behaviors among Older Chinese Adults: Examining the Roles of Fatalistic Beliefs and Fear. Geriatrics 2017, 2, 38 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics2040038 |
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