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Narrative accounts of hereditary risk: knowledge about family history, lay theories of disease, and "internal" and "external" causation.
Qualitative health research - 1 Apr 2007
Sanders Tom, Campbell Rona, Donovan Jenny, Sharp Debbie
Abstract excerpt
In this study, the authors sought to examine how risk information is articulated in relation to health problems that people identify as personally important and relevant. The respondents were receptive to health education messages, using different types of information in relation to its personal relevance and as a resource for managing and exercising control over perceived risk. People were not fatalistic about...
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