The Haiti Breast Cancer Initiative: Initial Findings and Analysis of Barriers-to-Care Delaying Patient Presentation

Table 3

Barriers-to-care survey: did any of the following prevent you from coming to clinic sooner?

Survey response	Patients without delay; (𝑁 = 52)	Patients with delay; (𝑁 = 38)	𝑃-value
I was afraid of being examined by a doctor or other health official	0 (0%)	3 (8%)	0.04
I had or knew someone who had a bad experience at a hospital before	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	n/a
I was not bothered by the mass at first	5 (10%)	18 (47%)	<0.01
I did not know I needed to see a doctor and thought it would go away	10 (20%)	13 (34%)	0.11
I did not know where an appropriate medical facility was	1 (2%)	2 (5%)	0.38
I was too busy at my home or job	0 (0%)	1 (3%)	0.24
I was afraid of treatments, including potentially losing my breast	0 (0%)	2 (5%)	0.10
I did not want anyone knowing that I had a mass	0 (0%)	1 (3%)	0.24
I tried another treatment or visited another healer first	0 (0%)	1 (3%)	0.24
I was afraid of possibly dying if my breast was removed	0 (0%)	4 (11%)	0.02
I was afraid it might be cancer	0 (0%)	2 (5%)	0.10
I thought treatment might be too expensive	3 (6%)	8 (21%)	0.03
It was too expensive to travel to the clinic	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	n/a
The clinic was too far away for me to travel to	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	n/a