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Judging risk for multiple diseases: the role of disease worry.

Journal of health psychology - 1 Apr 2013

Senay Ibrahim, Hensley-Alford Sharon, Kaphingst Kimberly A

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Risk perceptions and disease worry of 1,959 healthy adults were measured in a telephone-based survey. In the model for each of eight health conditions, people's perceived risk was related to their worry for that condition (p < .0001) and their worry for the other seven conditions (p < .001). There was also an interaction indicating that the less people were worried about a certain condition, the more their worry...

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PMID: 22843634
DOI: 10.1177/1359105312437263
PMCID: PMC3595370

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