Public attitudes about lung cancer: stigma, support, and predictors of support

Public attitudes about lung cancer: stigma, support, and predictors of support

INTRODUCTION Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, yet public engagement with efforts against lung cancer is low. Public engagement with a cancer is critical to efforts to combat it, yet the reasons for low support for efforts against lung cancer have not been systematically characterized. METHODS We conducted a telephone survey of 1,071 people to determine levels of engagement an...

Environmental Attitudes as Predictors of Policy Support across Three Countries

Stephen Kellert’s typology of attitudes and Dunlap and Van Liere’s New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale represent two different approaches to environmental attitudes. Both approaches were used to predict policy support for environmental protection among college students in Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. Results showed country and gender differences in the strength of...

Patients' attitudes toward internet cancer support groups.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore patients' attitudes toward Internet cancer support groups (ICSGs) through an online forum. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative study using a feminist perspective. SETTING Internet and real settings. PARTICIPANTS 16 patients with cancer. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH An online forum was held for one month with six discussion topics. The data were analyzed using thematic a...

Predictors of Canadian legislators' support for public health policy interventions.

Disease-related stigma: comparing predictors of AIDS and cancer stigma.

This study explores the prevalence of AIDS and cancer stigma as influenced by attitude toward homosexuality, religiosity, authoritarianism, and androgyny. This study used a quasi-experimental survey design (N = 485) to examine attitude toward people with AIDS and cancer, and interaction with people with AIDS and cancer. Negative attitudes toward homosexuality, high religious intensity and ideol...