Intention to test for prostate cancer

• Published in: European journal of cancer (1990) Vol. 41; no. 7; pp. 990 - 997
• Main Authors: Berglund, Gunilla, Nilsson, Sten, Nordin, Karin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2005; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Attitude to Health; Biological and medical sciences; Humans; Informative leaflet; Intention; Male; Medical sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Middle Aged; Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology; Patient Education as Topic; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Prostate cancer; Prostate-Specific Antigen - blood; Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis; Prostatic Neoplasms - psychology; PSA test; Surveys and Questionnaires; Theory of Planned Behaviour; Tumors; Theory of Planned Behaviour; Informative leaflet; Intention; PSA test; Prostate cancer; Urinary system disease; Prostate disease; Theory; Tumoral marker; Pharmacology; Malignant tumor; Prostate specific antigen; Cancerology; Male genital diseases

The aim of this study was to assess intention among men to take a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, when this test was: (i) offered by a doctor or (ii) based on the men’s own initiative. A further aim was to use the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to predict the most important determinants for...