ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2010
Perceptions of risk: understanding cardiovascular disease.
Article in Risk management and healthcare policy, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05693857 (Patient-Perceived Versus Actual Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Willingness to Follow Recommendations for Cardiovascular Prevention), which is not on this map. Cited by 75 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Patient-Perceived Versus Actual Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Willingness to Follow Recommendations for Cardiovascular Prevention
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A qualitative synthesis of factors influencing maintenance of lifestyle behaviour change in individuals with high cardiovascular risk.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2013Pooled it
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- Effect of Comprehensive Educational Program on Preeclamptic Women's Risk Perception of Cardiovascular Disease, Self-Efficacy, and Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Gender Matters: A Multidimensional Approach to Optimizing Cardiovascular Health in Women.Cureus · 2024Review
- Associations Between Psychological Factors and Adherence to Health Behaviors After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Role of Cardiac Rehabilitation.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Patient-reported preferences in eHealth-based cardiac rehabilitation: A qualitative investigation of behavior change techniques, barriers and facilitators.Internet interventions · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still the leading cause of death and disability worldwide despite the availability of well-established and effective preventive options. Accurate perception of a patient's risk by both the patient and the doctors is important as this is one of the components that determine health-related behavior. Doctors tend to not use cardiovascular (CV) risk calculators and underestimate the absolute CV risk of their patients. Patients show optimistic bias when considering their own risk and consistently underestimate it. Poor patient health literacy and numeracy must be considered when thinking about this problem. Patients must possess a reasonably high level of understanding of numerical processes when doctors discuss risk, a level that is not possessed by large numbers of the population. In order to overcome this barrier, doctors need to utilize various tools including the appropriate use of visual aids to accurately communicate risk with their patients. Any intervention has been shown to be better than nothing in improving health understanding. The simple process of repeatedly conveying risk information to a patient has been shown to improve accuracy of risk perception. Doctors need to take responsibility for the accurate assessment and effective communication of CV risk in their patients in order to improve patient uptake of cardioprotective lifestyle choices and preventive medications.
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