Dementia is the second most feared condition among Australian health service consumers: results of a cross-sectional survey

Fear of disease may act as a barrier to screening or early diagnosis. This cross-sectional survey of 355 people attending outpatient clinics at one Australian hospital found that cancer (34%) and dementia (29%) were the most feared diseases. Participants aged 65 years and over feared dementia the mo...

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Autores principales: Watson, Rochelle, Sanson-Fisher, Robert, Bryant, Jamie, Mansfield, Elise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37173717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15772-y
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spelling pubmed-101768132023-05-13 Dementia is the second most feared condition among Australian health service consumers: results of a cross-sectional survey Watson, Rochelle Sanson-Fisher, Robert Bryant, Jamie Mansfield, Elise BMC Public Health Research Fear of disease may act as a barrier to screening or early diagnosis. This cross-sectional survey of 355 people attending outpatient clinics at one Australian hospital found that cancer (34%) and dementia (29%) were the most feared diseases. Participants aged 65 years and over feared dementia the most. BioMed Central 2023-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10176813/ /pubmed/37173717 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15772-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Dementia is the second most feared condition among Australian health service consumers: results of a cross-sectional survey
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title_full Dementia is the second most feared condition among Australian health service consumers: results of a cross-sectional survey
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title_short Dementia is the second most feared condition among Australian health service consumers: results of a cross-sectional survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37173717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15772-y
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