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15110417

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-27
pubmed:abstractText
This paper compares psychosocial and cognitive models of socioeconomic variation in participation in screening for colorectal cancer. The psychosocial model suggests that factors such as higher stress and lower social support explain, in part, why people from lower socioeconomic status (SES) environments are less likely to participate in screening. The cognitive model suggests that beliefs about cancer risk and screening will play an important part in differential participation. In practice both sets of factors may contribute to explaining socioeconomic differentials. The data for these analyses are drawn from a randomised controlled trial of colorectal cancer screening (the UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Trial). The participants are from the Scottish centre, where recruitment was stratified to generate a socioeconomically diverse sample. The dependent variable was interest in attending screening. A questionnaire covering demographic status, psychosocial and cognitive factors as well as interest in screening was sent to 10,650 adults. The results showed the predicted SES gradient in interest. There were also SES differences in both psychosocial and cognitive variables. A series of logistic regression models were used to test potential mediators of the association between SES and interest in attending screening by successively including psychosocial factors, cognitive factors, and then both, in the equation. Only the inclusion of the cognitive variables significantly reduced the variation associated with SES, providing better support for the cognitive than the psychosocial model.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0277-9536
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
59
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
249-61
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Socioeconomic differences in cancer screening participation: comparing cognitive and psychosocial explanations.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, 2-16 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK. j.wardle@ucl.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article