ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2015
Information Avoidance Tendencies, Threat Management Resources, and Interest in Genetic Sequencing Feedback.
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- The effect of fear and situational motivation on online information avoidance: The case of COVID-19.International journal of information management · 2023Article
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- 'I Don't Like Uncertainty, I Like to Know': How and why uveal melanoma patients consent to life expectancy prognostication.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- What Causes Health Information Avoidance Behavior under Normalized COVID-19 Pandemic? A Research from Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Developing a framework for understanding health information behavior change from avoidance to acquisition: a grounded theory exploration.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Cancer Risk Perceptions Among People Who Check Their Skin for Skin Cancer: Results from the 2017 U.S. Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2022Article
- Information Avoidance, Self-affirmation, and Intentions to Receive Genomic Sequencing Results Among Members of an African Descent Cohort.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Article
- Dyadic concordance and associations of beliefs with intentions to learn carrier results from genomic sequencing.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Preferences for More or Less Health Care and Association With Health Literacy of Men Eligible for Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening in Australia.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Attitudes towards genetic testing and information: does parenthood shape the views?Journal of community genetics · 2020Article
- Dealing With the COVID-19 Infodemic: Distress by Information, Information Avoidance, and Compliance With Preventive Measures.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Using NCI-Designated Cancer Center Catchment-Area Data to Understand an Ignored but High-Need Constituent: People Uncertain or Avoidant about Their Cancer Risk.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundInformation avoidance is a defensive strategy that undermines receipt of potentially beneficial but threatening health information and may especially occur when threat management resources are unavailable. PURPOSE: We examined whether individual differences in information avoidance predicted intentions to receive genetic sequencing results for preventable and unpreventable (i.e., more threatening) disease and, secondarily, whether threat management resources of self-affirmation or optimism mitigated any effects.
methodsParticipants (N = 493) in an NIH study (ClinSeq®) piloting the use of genome sequencing reported intentions to receive (optional) sequencing results and completed individual difference measures of information avoidance, self-affirmation, and optimism.
resultsInformation avoidance tendencies corresponded with lower intentions to learn results, particularly for unpreventable diseases. The association was weaker among individuals higher in self-affirmation or optimism, but only for results regarding preventable diseases.
conclusionsInformation avoidance tendencies may influence decisions to receive threatening health information; threat management resources hold promise for mitigating this association.
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