ArticleCancer2018
The treasure of now and an uncertain future: Delay discounting and health behaviors among cancer survivors.
Article in Cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Applications of Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics in Mental Health.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
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- The Use of Nonmonetary Outcomes in Health-Related Delay Discounting Research: Review and Recommendations.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Review
- Discounting Future Reward in an Uncertain World.Decision (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Health behaviors among head and neck cancer survivors.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2023Article
- Impulsivity and Alcohol-Drinking Behavior: Evidence from Japan.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Delay discounting, probability discounting, and interdental cleaning frequency.BMC oral health · 2022Article
- Delay Discounting as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Weight Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors.Cancers · 2022Article
- The phenotype of recovery II: The association between delay discounting, self-reported quality of life, and remission status among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Experiences of cancer survivors in Europe: Has anything changed? Can artificial intelligence offer a solution?Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Comparison of delay discounting of different outcomes in cigarette smokers, smokeless tobacco users, e-cigarette users, and non-tobacco users.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Article
- Episodic Future Thinking: A Behavioral Intervention to Promote Weight Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors (Alliance A21-Pilot10).JCO oncology advancesArticle
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backgroundThe identification of new therapeutic targets to improve health behaviors among cancer survivors (CS) is likely to improve cancer treatment outcomes. Delay discounting (DD) rate is the degree to which one devalues rewards as a function of time to receipt. Lower DD rates (ie, prioritizing long-term over immediate rewards) are associated with healthier behaviors. CS often experience distress and thoughts of early mortality that can potentially shift priorities to the present and negatively impact DD rates, especially when newly diagnosed. Understanding relations between DD and health behaviors among CS will contribute to the examination of DD as a therapeutic target for improving health behaviors for CS.
methodCS (n = 1001) were recruited from a web panel and administered a web-based questionnaire. Multivariate models examined relations among DD rate, years since diagnosis, and 10 health behavior indicators. We hypothesized that 1) higher DD rates would be associated with fewer years since diagnosis, and 2) lower DD rates would be associated with healthier behaviors, moderated by years since diagnosis.
resultsIn general, higher DD rates were associated with fewer years since diagnosis. Higher DD rates were associated with more alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, other tobacco use, tanning booth use, and conversely, greater adherence to annual primary care visits. A significant interaction between DD rate and years since diagnosis was not found.
conclusionLower DD rates are associated with several important healthy lifestyle behaviors. DD rate is a promising therapeutic target for new interventions to improve multiple health behaviors among CS.
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