Citation

Consedine NS, Krivoshekova YS, Harris CR. Br. J. Health Psychol. 2007; 12(3): 439-462.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, British Psychological Society)

DOI

10.1348/135910706X118747

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Objectives. Understanding why people do not always engage in medical examinations that might benefit them is a public health issue which is receiving increased attention. One area of promise involves the study of medical embarrassment, although current studies are weakened in that they measure medical embarrassment in a theoretically naïve and unidimensional manner and have assumed that embarrassment is exclusively a barrier to the timely seeking of treatment.