“…Likewise, one of the individual characteristics that has been most influential in terms of new barriers created by the pandemic is fear of contagion [83][84][85][86]88,89,94,95,97], an aspect that has been discussed in many publications, including opinion articles [113,[137][138][139][140][141][142], and also played a highly significant role in previous epidemics as a factor causing problems or delays in seeking medical care [2,21,24,26,72,76,101,108,143,144]. Other factors reported include the stigma associated with seeking care [84,89,93,94,97], also described in other publications [109,145], and users playing down the need for medical treatment [84,94,98] and perceiving a lack of response on the part of the health services [85,88].…”