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Associations between risk perceptions and worry about common diseases: a between- and within-subjects examination.
Psychology & health - 1 Jan 2013
Shiloh Shoshana, Wade Christopher H, Roberts J Scott, Alford Sharon Hensley, Biesecker Barbara B
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The relationships between worry and perceptions of likelihood and severity were evaluated across eight common diseases. Individual and disease variability in worry and perceptions were examined. 294 participants were recruited through the Multiplex Initiative, in which a genetic susceptibility test for eight common diseases was offered to healthy adults. Participants completed a baseline telephone survey and...
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