Chul-joo Lee|A. Susana Ramírez|Nehama Lewis|Stacy W. Gray|Robert Hornik
Looking Beyond the Internet: Examining Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cancer Information Seeking Among Cancer Patients
The Ohio State University
gap cancer information seeking highsocioeconomicstatus highses cancer patients lowses cancer patients deserves serious attention considering importance information knowledge cancer control thus explored association ses measured education cancer patients overall cancer information seeking seeking source ie internet mass media medical sources nonmedical interpersonal sources across two topic categories ie treatment quality life asked whether effect education treatment information seeking reduced among particularly motivated control treatment choices conducted survey breast prostate colon cancer patients diagnosed 2005 n 2013 randomly drawn pennsylvania cancer registry fall 2006 found education strongly associated internet use use sources regardless topics also information sought mass media education greater association treatment information seeking qualityoflife information seeking preference active participation treatment decision making however moderate effect education treatment information seeking implications findings public health research cancer patient education discussed