Motivation for Patient Delay

Fisher, Seymour

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1967.01730240032005

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“…As mentioned earlier, Kornfeld et al (1974) found this kind of group to have a higher incidence of postoperative delirium following open-heart surgery. Women who are independent and autonomous (as measured with the Holtzman Inkblot Technique) show greater delay in seeking treatment for symptoms of breast or cervical cancer (Fisher, 1967;Hammerschlag, Fisher, DeCosse, & Kaplan, 1964). Tuberculosis patients who take an active role have difficulty adjusting to the hospital environment but do better in the community after discharge (Vernier, Barrell, Cummings, Dickerson, & Hooper, 1961).…”

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Coping with surgery: Information, psychological preparation, and recovery.

Cohen¹

1980

Aging in the 1980s: Psychological Issues.

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This chapter discusses research studies that have investigated the relation between coping and recovery from surgery. One study examined patients' avoidance of or vigilance toward information about the surgery. Contrary to predictions, vigilant patients had a more complicated recovery pattern. The second study provided interventions designed to involve patients actively in the recovery process. Treatment effects were found only in post-hoc analyses, which took into account the information given by the surgeon. The results suggest (a)that in certain health-care situations, avoidance may be an effective coping strategy, and (b) that it may be difjicult to provide patients with a sense of active control.

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Coping with surgery: Information, psychological preparation, and recovery.

Cohen¹

1980

Aging in the 1980s: Psychological Issues.

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“…Relating these styles with the sub,j ects I responses to published information Li.nkl.ng smoking with cancer, Wolitzky found the constricted-control smokers acknowledged the established Li nk (and showed in the preceding year a tendency to cut down their smoking), whi.I.e the flexible-control smokers denied the possibil i ty. Fisher (1967) found. that women with high Barrier scores obtained from Rorschach protocols (interpreted to represent independence and definite body bounda:ries--see discussion above) delayed longe:r in seeking medical attention after first discovering symptoms suggesting the possibility of their having cancer.…”

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Research in Child Psychopathology: The Contributions of Developmental, Psychology

Santostefano

Baker

1970

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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Since the many broader developmental propositions common to the theories of Piaget, Werner, and psychoanalytic ego psychology are not available in the usual research report, the present paper starts by defining a number of them to provide an outline of the conceptual framework which these three developmental theories share. This framework delineates the limits of the literature survey which follows. Four main lines of investigation are then reviewed, each dealing with questions and hypotheses derived from one or more of the propositions and each suggested by an examination of the literature. These are: studies dealing with innately given behavioral and structural organs and modes of functioning; differentiation‐integration and levels of organization; multiple modes and stages of development; and the adaptive process. Following this literature review, a concluding section considers some implications of the biodevelopmental research reported to date for the understanding of child psychopathology.

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“…The mastectomy patient faces adjustment to an altered body and an altered body image. "Healthy" women have specific notions of what they like or dislike about their bodies and tend to like their bodies more than men ' The delay literature is more commonly analyzed in terms of psychological variables in the individual that cause delay in seeking diagnosis or treatment [16][17][18].…”

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Psychosocial Adjustment to Breast Cancer: A Review of Selected Literature

Lewis

Bloom

1979

Int J Psychiatry Med

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The following is a review of the clinical and research literature concerning women's emotional adjustment to the detection of breast cancer and its subsequent management. The review is organized into ten themes which focus on three general areas: 1) women's response to the diagnosis of breast cancer; 2) involvement of spouse, family and professional providers; and 3) the patient's milieu--how it impinges on the course of her treatment and rehabilitation. Also noted is the paucity of systematic research dealing with the effectiveness of support interventions, their content and duration, and the appropriate individual to provide such support.

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Motivation for Patient Delay

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Coping with surgery: Information, psychological preparation, and recovery.

Coping with surgery: Information, psychological preparation, and recovery.

Research in Child Psychopathology: The Contributions of Developmental, Psychology

Psychosocial Adjustment to Breast Cancer: A Review of Selected Literature

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