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Making Sense of a Health Threat: Illness Representations, Coping, and Psychological Distress among BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers.

Genes - 14 May 2021

Brand Hannah, Speiser Dorothee, Besch Laura, Roseman Julia, Kendel Friederike

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Little is known about how women with a BRCA1/2 mutation develop an individual understanding of their breast and ovarian cancer risk and how this affects their psychological distress. In this study, we investigated associations between illness representations, coping strategies and psychological distress. N = 101 BRCA1/2 mutation carriers answered self-report questionnaires on illness representations, coping...

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PMID: 34069035
DOI: 10.3390/genes12050741
PMCID: PMC8156260

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