@article{ref1,
title="Bodily embarrassment and judgment concern as separable factors in the measurement of medical embarrassment: Psychometric development and links to treatment‐seeking outcomes",
journal="British journal of health psychology",
year="2007",
author="Consedine, Nathan S. and Krivoshekova, Yulia S. and Harris, Christine R.",
volume="12",
number="3",
pages="439-462",
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.<p />",
language="",
issn="1359-107X",
doi="10.1348/135910706X118747",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135910706X118747"
}