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Thomson, Maria D.; Siminoff, Laura A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Financial barriers can substantially delay medical care seeking. Using patient narratives provided by 252 colorectal cancer patients, we explored the experience of financial barriers to care seeking. Of the 252 patients interviewed, 84 identified financial barriers as a significant hurdle to obtaining health care for their colorectal cancer…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Costs, Cancer, Barriers
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Tuerk, Elena Hontoria; Loper, Ann Booker – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
Incarcerated mothers (n = 357) at a maximum-security prison participated in a study of the relationship between contact and parenting stress, using the parenting stress index for incarcerated women (PSI-IW; Houck & Loper, 2002). The study examined contact before incarceration and the frequency of telephone, letter, and visitation contact…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Institutionalized Persons, Mothers, Correctional Institutions