ArticleJournal of health communication2016
How Are Information Seeking, Scanning, and Processing Related to Beliefs About the Roles of Genetics and Behavior in Cancer Causation?
Article in Journal of health communication, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06374576 (Improving eHealth Literacy of Older Adults in Hong Kong), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Improving eHealth Literacy of Older Adults in Hong Kong: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Multifactorial causal beliefs and colorectal cancer screening: A structural equation modeling investigation.Journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- "Being proactive, not reactive": exploring perceptions of genetic testing among White, Latinx, and Pacific Islander Populations.Journal of community genetics · 2021Article
- Lack of familiarity with genetic testing among patients in Ireland with Cancer.Irish journal of medical science · 2021Article
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- Impact of numeracy preferences on information needs for genome sequencing results.Patient education and counseling · 2021Article
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- Evaluating Correlates of Awareness of the Association between Drinking Too Much Alcohol and Cancer Risk in the United States.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2019Article
- Factors affecting breast cancer patients' need for genetic risk information: From information insufficiency to information need.Journal of genetic counseling · 2019Article
- How are multifactorial beliefs about the role of genetics and behavior in cancer causation associated with cancer risk cognitions and emotions in the US population?Psycho-oncology · 2018Article
- Quality of life during early radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer and pain.Journal of pain research · 2017Article
- How low-income adults in China perceive health and health management mobile applications.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Understanding that cancer is caused by both genetic and behavioral risk factors is an important component of genomic literacy. However, a considerable percentage of people in the United States do not endorse such multifactorial beliefs. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data from the U.S. Health Information National Trends Survey (N = 2,529), we examined how information seeking, information scanning, and key information-processing characteristics were associated with endorsing a multifactorial model of cancer causation. Multifactorial beliefs about cancer were more common among respondents who engaged in cancer information scanning (p = .001), were motivated to process health information (p = .005), and reported a family history of cancer (p = .0002). Respondents who reported having previous negative information-seeking experiences had lower odds of endorsing multifactorial beliefs (p = .01). Multifactorial beliefs were not associated with cancer information seeking, trusting cancer information obtained from the Internet, trusting cancer information from a physician, self-efficacy for obtaining cancer information, numeracy, or being aware of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (ps > .05). Gaining additional understanding of how people access, process, and use health information will be critical for the continued development and dissemination of effective health communication interventions and for the further translation of genomics research to public health and clinical practice.
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