Who or what is to blame? Examining sociodemographic relationships to beliefs about causes, control, and responsibility for cancer and chronic disease prevention in Alberta, Canada

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Kimberley D. Curtin
  • Mathew Thomson
  • Candace I. J. Nykiforuk

• Beliefs about causes and responsibility for chronic diseases can affect personal behaviour and support for healthy policies. In this research we examined relationships between socio-demographics (sex, age, education, employment, political alignment, perceived health, household income, household size) and perceptions of causes and responsibility for health behaviour, chronic disease correlates, and attitudes about cancer prevention and causes.

• Date created

  2021-06-02

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Chronic disease prevention
  • Healthy policy
  • Etiology
  • Cancer
  • Attribution theory
  • Multinomial logistic regression

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-2rgv-m650

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International