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Judging risk for multiple diseases: The role of disease worry

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Risk perceptions and disease worry of 1,959 healthy adults were measured in a telephone-based survey. In the model for each of eight health conditions, people's perceived risk was related to their worry for that condition (p < .0001) and their worry for the other seven conditions (p < .001). There was also an interaction indicating that the less people were worried about a certain condition, the more their worry about the other seven conditions increased their risk perception for that condition (p < .0001). The results are important for preventing biased risk perceptions in multiple-disease contexts.

Source: Journal of Health Psychology

DOI: 10.1177/1359105312437263

Authors: Ibrahim Senay, Sharon Hensley-Alford, Kimberly A. Kaphingst

Institution: National Institutes of Health

Language: English

Topic: Risk Perception and Management

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institutes of Health