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Can risk and illness perceptions predict breast cancer worry in healthy women?

Journal of health psychology - 1 Sept 2016

Gibbons Andrea, Groarke AnnMarie

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Predictors of breast cancer worry in healthy women remain unclear. Healthy women less than 50 years (N = 857) completed measures of family history, anxiety, absolute and comparative risk perceptions, illness perceptions, and breast cancer worry. Regression analyses revealed that having a family history of breast cancer, greater anxiety, higher absolute risk perceptions and negative illness perceptions predicted...

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PMID: 25712488
DOI: 10.1177/1359105315570984

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