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Applying a cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety in a cancer genetics service

Applying a cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety in a cancer genetics service
Applying a cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety in a cancer genetics service
A cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety was used to investigate reactions to genetic counseling for cancer. Participants (N = 218) were asked to complete a questionnaire beforehand and 6 months later. There was an overall decrease in levels of cancer-related anxiety, although 24% of participants showed increased cancer-related anxiety at follow-up. People who had a general tendency to worry about their health reported more cancer-related anxiety than those who did not at both time points. This health-anxious group also showed a postcounseling anxiety reduction, whereas the others showed no significant change. Participants with breast or ovarian cancer in their family were more anxious than participants with colon cancer in their family. Preexisting beliefs were significant predictors of anxiety, consistent with a cognitive-behavioral approach
genetic counseling, perceptions, breast-cancer, women, seeking, psychological, family-history, risk, prediction, cancer, breast, anxiety, time, osteoporosis, model, impact, cognitive-behavioral, ovarian-cancer, risk perceptions, families, psychological distress
0278-6133
171-180
Rimes, K.A.
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Salkovskis, P.A.
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Jones, L.
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Lucassen, A.A.
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Rimes, K.A.
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Salkovskis, P.A.
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Jones, L.
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Rimes, K.A., Salkovskis, P.A., Jones, L. and Lucassen, A.A. (2006) Applying a cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety in a cancer genetics service. Health Psychology, 25 (2), 171-180.

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A cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety was used to investigate reactions to genetic counseling for cancer. Participants (N = 218) were asked to complete a questionnaire beforehand and 6 months later. There was an overall decrease in levels of cancer-related anxiety, although 24% of participants showed increased cancer-related anxiety at follow-up. People who had a general tendency to worry about their health reported more cancer-related anxiety than those who did not at both time points. This health-anxious group also showed a postcounseling anxiety reduction, whereas the others showed no significant change. Participants with breast or ovarian cancer in their family were more anxious than participants with colon cancer in their family. Preexisting beliefs were significant predictors of anxiety, consistent with a cognitive-behavioral approach

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Published date: 2006
Keywords: genetic counseling, perceptions, breast-cancer, women, seeking, psychological, family-history, risk, prediction, cancer, breast, anxiety, time, osteoporosis, model, impact, cognitive-behavioral, ovarian-cancer, risk perceptions, families, psychological distress

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Local EPrints ID: 62898
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/62898
ISSN: 0278-6133
PURE UUID: 9fd502c6-bf87-42ea-98fe-2a9d8b653103
ORCID for A.A. Lucassen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3324-4338

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Date deposited: 09 Sep 2008
Last modified: 23 Jul 2022 01:49

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Author: K.A. Rimes
Author: P.A. Salkovskis
Author: L. Jones
Author: A.A. Lucassen ORCID iD

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