Research Article
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 ( = 52) | Patients with delay ( = 38) | -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 |
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