ReviewPatient education and counseling2010
Risky feelings: why a 6% risk of cancer does not always feel like 6%.
Review in Patient education and counseling, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03511690 (Testing an Intelligent Tutoring System Intervention to Enhance Genetic Risk Assessment in Underserved Blacks and Latinas at Risk of Hereditary Breast Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Testing an Intelligent Tutoring System Intervention to Enhance Genetic Risk Assessment in Underserved Blacks and Latinas at Risk of Hereditary Breast Cancer
Who cites it
40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Digital Health Revolution: Exploring the Impact of Online Cancer Information on Self-Reported Preventive Behaviors.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- "R" you getting this? Factors contributing to the public's understanding, evaluation, and use of basic reproduction numbers for infectious diseases.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Optimizing health literacy to facilitate reproductive health decision-making in adolescent and young adults with cancer.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2023Article
- Risk-reducing mastectomy decisions among women with mutations in high- and moderate- penetrance breast cancer susceptibility genes.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2022Article
- Effect of Superstitious Beliefs and Risk Intuitions on Genetic Test Decisions.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022Article
- Decision-making for Risk-reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) in Southeast Asian BRCA Mutation Carriers With Breast Cancer: A Qualitative Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
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- The Influence of Emotions on Treatment Decisions About Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer: A Qualitative Study.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2021Article
- Cancer-Related Decision-Making Among Adolescents, Young Adults, Caregivers, and Oncology Providers.Qualitative health research · 2021Article
- Exploring Cancer Survivor Needs and Preferences for Communicating Personalized Cancer Statistics From Registry Data: Qualitative Multimethod Study.JMIR cancer · 2021Article
- Elevated risk thresholds predict endocrine risk-reducing medication use in the Athena screening registry.NPJ breast cancer · 2021Article
- Decision Science Can Inform Clinical Trade-Offs Regarding Cardiotoxic Cancer Treatments.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2021Article
- Dynamic Perceived HIV Risk and Sexual Behaviors Among Young Women Enrolled in a PrEP Trial in Kenya: A Qualitative Study.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2021Article
- Patient-Perceived Versus Actual Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Associated Willingness to Consider and Use Prevention Therapy.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2021Article
- A Web Application About Herd Immunity Using Personalized Avatars: Development Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Usability and feasibility of consumer-facing technology to reduce unsafe medication use by older adults.Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveEmotion plays a strong role in the perception of risk information but is frequently underemphasized in the decision-making and communication literature. We sought to discuss and put into context several lines of research that have explored the links between emotion and risk perceptions.
methodsIn this article, we provide a focused, "state of the science" review of research revealing the ways that emotion, or affect, influences people's cancer-related decisions. We identify illustrative experimental research studies that demonstrate the role of affect in people's estimates of cancer risk, their decisions between different cancer treatments, their perceptions of the chance of cancer recurrence, and their reactions to different methods of presenting risk information.
resultsThese studies show that people have strong affective reactions to cancer risk information and that the way risk information is presented often determines the emotional gist people take away from such communications.
conclusionCancer researchers, educators and oncologists need to be aware that emotions are often more influential in decision making about cancer treatments and prevention behaviors than factual knowledge is. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Anticipating and assessing affective reactions is an essential step in the evaluation and improvement of cancer risk communications.
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