Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess delay in treatment for breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study reports the reliability and validity of a questionnaire designed to measure the time from detection of a breast cancer to arrival at a cancer hospital, as well as the factors that are associated with delay.

Methods

The proposed questionnaire measures dates for estimation of the patient, provider and total intervals from detection to treatment, as well as factors that could be related to delays: means of problem identification (self-discovery or screening), the patients' initial interpretations of symptoms, patients' perceptions of delay, reasons for delay in initial seeking of medical care, barriers perceived to have caused provider delay, prior utilisation of health services, use of alternative medicine, cancer-screening knowledge and practices, and as

SUBMITTER: Unger-Saldana K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3543238 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature