Busy lifestyles and mammography screening: Time pressure and women’s reattendance likelihood

Brown, Stephen Lloyd, Gibney, Triecia M. and Tarling, Rachel (2013) Busy lifestyles and mammography screening: Time pressure and women’s reattendance likelihood. Psychology & Health, 28 (8). pp. 928-938. ISSN 0887-0446

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2013.766734

Abstract

Time pressure is often cited as a reason for non-attendance at mammography screening, although evidence from other areas of psychology suggests that time pressure can improve performance when barriers such as time pressure provide a challenge. We predicted that time pressure would negatively predict attendance in women whose self-efficacy for overcoming time pressure is low, but positively predict attendance when self-efficacy is high. Time pressure was operationalised as the self-reported number of dependent children and others, and average number of working hours per week. Australian women were surveyed after being invited to attend second or subsequent screenings at a free public screening service, and subsequent attendance monitored until six months after screening was due. The majority (87.5%) attended screening.
Women with more dependent children and higher self-efficacy showed greater attendance likelihood, and women with fewer non-child dependants and lower self-efficacy were less likely to attend. Working hours did not predict attendance.
Findings provide partial support for the idea that time pressure acts as a challenge for women with high self-efficacy.


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