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Improving cancer symptom awareness and help-seeking among adults living in socioeconomically deprived communities in the UK using a facilitated health check: A protocol for the Awareness and Beliefs About Cancer (ABACus) Randomised Control Trial

BACKGROUND: Cancer survival is lower in socioeconomically deprived communities, partly due to low awareness of symptoms, negative beliefs and delayed help-seeking. We developed an interactive health check questionnaire facilitated by trained lay advisors. It entails 29 questions about background, li...

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Autores principales: Moriarty, Yvonne, Townson, Julia, Quinn-Scoggins, Harriet, Padgett, Louise, Owen, Sioned, Smits, Stephanie, Playle, Rebecca, Dimitropoulou, Polyxeni, Sewell, Bernadette, Kolovou, Vasiliki, Buckle, Peter, Carter, Ben, Edwards, Adrian, Hepburn, Julie, Matthews, Maura, Mitchell, Caroline, Neal, Richard D, Robling, Michael, Wood, Fiona, Brain, Kate
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6612-9