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

Table 1

Potential risk factors for delayed patient presentation (barriers-to-care).

Personal	Sociocultural	Economic
Age; Ethnicity; Marital status; Clinical presentation; Personal history; Family history	Breast cancer awareness; Failure to initially recognize mass as important; Lack of breast-self exam (BSE) use; Alternative therapy use; Fear of examination; Fear of treatment; Stigma of disease; Denial/anxiety	Fear of cost of travel; Fear of cost of treatment; Obligations at home/work; Access to health systems; Income status; Education status

Note: variables in bold were shown to predict patient delay in the multivariate logistic regression analysis (see Figure 2).