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Exploring Information Seeking Anxiety Among Localized Prostate Cancer Patients.

Levi Ross¹, Michael A Preston^2,3, Torhonda C Lee⁴

¹Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, USA.

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|March 28, 2024

Summary

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Information seeking anxiety, a mix of worry and confusion, delays prostate cancer patients from gathering treatment information. This study highlights it as a barrier in localized prostate cancer care.

Keywords:

aging information seeking anxiety personal health literacy prostate cancer

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Area of Science:

Oncology
Health Psychology
Information Science

Background:

Information seeking anxiety (ISA) is a multidimensional construct involving worry, confusion, and disorganization.
Limited research exists on ISA among cancer patients in the United States.
Prostate cancer patients face unique challenges in seeking treatment information.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate ISA among prostate cancer patients.
To document their assessment experiences.
To examine the relationship between ISA and treatment information search behaviors.

Main Methods:

A purposive sample of 63 African American and Caucasian men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer (stage T1 or T2) within 5 years.
Recruitment via cancer registries, advertisements, and word-of-mouth.
Self-administered surveys collected demographic information, treatment information-seeking behaviors, and ISA evaluations.

Main Results:

95.2% of survivors reported some level of ISA during initial information seeking.
Common elements included confusion (55.5%), worry about finding information (60.3%), discomfort (55.5%), and disorganization (49.2%).
ISA was moderately correlated with a delay in starting treatment information searches (p = .02; r = .306).

Conclusions:

ISA appears to delay treatment information gathering for prostate cancer survivors with localized disease.
ISA represents a previously undocumented barrier in prostate cancer care delivery.
Further research with larger, diverse samples is recommended to validate these findings.