ArticleHealth psychology review2010
A model of the influence of false-positive mammography screening results on subsequent screening.
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- Some more evidence of long-term psychosocial harms from receiving false-positive screening mammography results.Evidence-based medicine · 2014Article
- Influence of false-positive mammography results on subsequent screening: do physician recommendations buffer negative effects?Journal of medical screening · 2012Article
- False positive mammograms in Europe: do they affect reattendance?Breast cancer research and treatment · 2011Article
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Abstract
Decades of empirical research have demonstrated psychological and behavioural consequences of false-positive medical tests. To organise this literature and offer novel predictions, we propose a model of how false-positive mammography results affect return for subsequent mammography screening. We propose that false-positive mammography results alter how women think about themselves (e.g., increasing their perceived likelihood of getting breast cancer) and the screening test (e.g., believing mammography test results are less accurate). We further hypothesise that thoughts elicited by the false-positive experience will, in turn, affect future use of screening mammography. In addition, we discuss methodological considerations for statistical analyses of these mediational pathways and propose two classes of potential moderators. While our model focuses on mammography screening, it may be applicable to psychological and behavioural responses to other screening tests. The model is especially timely as false-positive medical test results are increasingly common, due to efforts to increase uptake of cancer screening, new technologies that improve existing tests' ability to detect disease at the cost of increased false alarms, and growing numbers of new medical tests.
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