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Measuring and Validating a General Cancer Predisposition Perception Scale: An Adaptation of the Revised-IPQ-Genetic Predisposition Scale.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2015

Lam Wendy Wing Tak, Liao Qiuyan, Wong Jennifer Hiu Fai, Lai Ching Lung, Yuen Man Fung, Tsang Janice Wing Hang, Fielding Richard

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BACKGROUND: Illness perceptions are linked to individual help-seeking and preventive behaviors. Previous illness perception studies have identified five dimensions of illness-related experience and behaviour. The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) for genetic predisposition (IPQ-R-GP) was developed to measure illness perceptions in those genetically-predisposed to blood disease. We adapted the...

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PMID: 26559191
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142620
PMCID: PMC4641658

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