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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-5-16
pubmed:abstractText
Counseling women about breast cancer risks has been found to decrease screening compliance. We investigated whether women's reactions to risk information are an artifact of requiring women to estimate the risk of breast cancer prior to receiving risk information. Three hundred and fifty-six women were randomized to either make or not make a risk estimate prior to receiving risk information. Outcome measures were participants' estimates of the average woman's breast cancer risk and their emotional response to the risk information. Women overestimated the lifetime risk of breast cancer (M = 46%). Women who made risk estimates felt more relieved about the risk and perceived the risk as being lower than women who did not make estimates (p's < 0.001). Asking people to estimate risks influenced their subsequent perceptions of the risk of breast cancer.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0738-3991
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
57
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
294-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Anxiety, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Attitude to Health, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Communication, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Decision Support Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Emotions, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Health Education, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Michigan, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Questionnaires, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Risk Assessment, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:15893211-Women
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
How making a risk estimate can change the feel of that risk: shifting attitudes toward breast cancer risk in a general public survey.
pubmed:affiliation
VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. fagerlin@umich.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural