Contextual factors
| Influence of time in developing trust | Well, it’s in your mind all the time you’ve got it like, you know, and was it going to flare up and as the years went on like and I’m still here, and I’m still here, I’m still here, you know, it got less like. That you know and well I’m now 78, I’m thinking, well, I’ve not done bad. P1-Rx-L-8, Int +13yr5mo, radical treatment +13yr9mo |
| Well not so bad really, you know I’ve had this condition now 6 years or so and you more or less get used to it, you get immune to it really. Yeah, so it's not so bad… It has got easier, you know when I first knew that I had it, it was a worry sort of thing you know, but it hasn't got so much a worry over the years. P15-Rx-L-3, Int +8yr2mo, continued AM | |
| Over the three years it’s been ok, and I’ve been, as far as I know they’ve really taken quite good care of me, they’ve given me plenty of time, I can ring up any time I want if I was worried about anything. I’ve got that, and I feel there’s a contact there that I can ring and have a chat to somebody if I needed to. P14-Rx-L,+2yr10mo, continued AM | |
| Influence of caring role | She was wanting me to go and have this test done or something I don't know what it's called. I said to her not at the moment because I'm a bit busy and with the wife and everything, you know, it's been a bit awkward. P18-Pref-L,+6yr2mo, withdrew from AM follow-up +7 year |
| Social context | I’ve got a pretty busy sort of life with my work and what I do within the village and stuff like that. So I ain’t got time to brood on it, to be honest. So, yeah, get an active life might help some people. If you’re not really, I can imagine if you were just sat around and not really a social sort of person or whatever and getting out and around and stuff, that you could sort of vegetate and brood on it a bit, perhaps. P14-Pref-L, Int +4yr9mo, continued AM |
| Well basically you don’t think about it at all…well there’s never a day that goes by you’ve got something to do, you know, two children, our two children, one is thirty odd and twenty-well nearly thirty. But like today I’ve just been down, his boiler’s gone out, and so it goes on, there’s always plenty to do P9-Pref-L, Int+9 mo, radical treatment +3yr4mo | |
| Family and friends’ experiences | I’m in a [name of club], we’re all old people, I mean about 6 people got it [PCa]. And they’re all sort of saying that their readings started to shoot up, so I thought I would nip it in the bud then, get it out early. All of them had treatment. Some of them had had surgery first, then radiotherapy, and for some of them that didn’t work either so they’re on hormones again. So I thought well, get it now, so I don’t have to go through all this lot. P9-Pref-L, Int +4yr5mo, radical treatment +3yr4mo |
| I just lost my sister-in-law this week to breast cancer and it is horrible…It was really horrible, and I thought, ‘I don’t wanna go through that’, I don’t wanna be like that P15-Rx-L, Int +2yr10mo, continued AM |
For key see table 2.