Health Psychology Response

Past conducted research led experts to believe that men as a gender tend to not seek medical attention as often as they should for various health concerns. The purpose of this research study was to determine why it is that men under-use primary health services. Since reasons for this attitude towards healthcare are psychological, it necessitates a type of study which is subjective and based upon the individual opinions and experiences of the subjects involved. Researchers are particularly interested in the past negative experiences that these male subjects may have had with healthcare practitioners which would add to this phenomenon of under-utilization.

While conducting the investigation, researchers conducted "semi-structured" interviews with male GPs who were between ages 35 and 53. The only male GPs that researchers could get to participate in the experiment were persons that were some way already known to researchers. The writers of the...
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