Publications by authors named "Despres Caroline"

Facing breast cancer, women in precarious situations are more likely to be diagnosed at an advanced stage, and when detected at the same stage, they are more to die as well as faster. In this paper, we analyze a corpus of 40 semi-structured interviews conducted in six cancer services in hospitals of the Paris area on the care pathways of women with breast cancer. The analysis focuses on the beginning of the pathways (until the first treatments) and concentrates on their spatial and temporal dimension in the light of precariousness.

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Introduction: Precariousness has been associated with an increase in breast cancer mortality, but the links between precariousness, stage at diagnosis and care pathways are little explored. The objective of the DESSEIN study was to assess the impact of precariousness on disease and care pathways.

Methods: Prospective observational study in Île-de-France comparing precarious and non-precarious patients consulting for breast cancer and followed for 1 year.

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Background: In this qualitative analysis we aimed to explore addiction physicians' perspectives on safer injection education for people who inject drugs, especially: (1) on possible means of introducing safer injection education in the medical environment, (2) on the compatibility of safer injection education with each physician's core values and goals, and (3) on possible reasons for the ethical dilemma in safer injection education.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with eleven physicians practicing addiction medicine in France in clinical and harm reduction settings.

Results: All participants were in favor of educational interventions for people who inject drugs.

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Background: Depending on the needs of scientific research at a given time, biobanks make biological samples and data available to researchers. In this article, we aim to describe the reasons and underlying logic that determine the decision to grant or deny consent to the conservation of tumour samples in a biological resource platform for research purposes. We make use of the CARPEM biological resource platform model, where broad consent is required.

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Socio-economic and geographical inequalities in breast cancer mortality have been widely described in European countries and the United States. To investigate the combined effects of geographic access and socio-economic characteristics on breast cancer outcomes, a systematic review was conducted exploring the relationships between: (i) geographic access to healthcare facilities (oncology services, mammography screening), defined as travel time and/or travel distance; (ii) breast cancer-related outcomes (mammography screening, stage of cancer at diagnosis, type of treatment and rate of mortality); (iii) socioeconomic status (SES) at individuals and residential context levels. In total, n = 25 studies (29 relationships tested) were included in our systematic review.

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Introduction: The way in which the COVID-19 pandemic was handled resulted in public health measures that had varying impacts on different segments of society. We consider the experience and feelings of a group of ATD Fourth World activists in precarious living situations, specifically during the end of the first lockdown period.

Purpose Of Research: In this article we will analyze, from their speech, the risk perception and the related attitudes in this specific period (April to July 2020).

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The availability for research of biobanked human biological materials and their derived data is submitted to several legal regulations, including informed consent. Empirical research about the understanding of the information disclosed is limited. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the appropriation of the oral and written information provided when the Informed Consent is collected for participation in tumor collection.

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Article Synopsis
  • Cervical cancer rates in Reunion are 2 to 3 times higher than in mainland France, prompting the RESISTE trial to test the effectiveness of home-based self-sampling for HPV screening among under-screened women.
  • Qualitative research involving 35 women and 20 healthcare providers revealed that while providers see home-based testing as a promising option, women expressed concerns about the test's reliability and their ability to perform it safely.
  • Recommendations were made to improve women's confidence in the self-sampling process and to enhance outreach efforts to encourage participation among socially isolated women.
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Background: In France during the last 15 years, precariousness among women has increased. In breast cancer, precariousness has been associated with an increase in mortality, but the links between precariousness, stage at diagnosis and care pathway are little explored. Our study aims to evaluate the impact of precariousness on care pathways, treatment and recovery phase according to a multidisciplinary analysis.

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The purpose of this article is to analyse healthcare pathways for precarious people, based on the results of a field study conducted in 2011 and 2012 in the north of France and Burgundy. About 40 semi-directed interviews were conducted in order to collect healthcare pathways narratives revolving around various health events during the subject's life, and putting them in perspective with individual, familial stories as well as their environment (social environment, healthcare organization, etc.).

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