Cancer genetic consultation and anxiety in healthy consultees
| Autor: | Christine Maugard, François Eisinger, Yves-Jean Bignon, Martine Machelard-roumagnac, Philippe Vennin, Claire Julian-Reynier, Y. Aurran, Hagay Sobol, Catherine Noguès, Françoise Chabal |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Cancer Regression analysis General Medicine General Chemistry medicine.disease Risk perception Feeling Covariate medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychiatry Psychology Applied Psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychology & Health. 14:379-390 |
| ISSN: | 1476-8321 0887-0446 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08870449908407335 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of cancer genetic consultations on clients' feelings of anxiety. Among the 219 healthy women attending six clinics all located in different parts of France from January 1994 to January 1995, 173 (79%) answered pre- and post-consultation questionnaires and completed the anxiety inventories (Spielberger's State Trait Anxiety Inventory). On average, the subjects reported less state anxiety after than before the consultation (p < 0.001), whatever their risk status. In the women who were the most likely to be 'at risk' (N = 115), a multiple regression analysis taking the post-consultation anxiety score as the dependent variable with the pre-consultation anxiety score as a covariate. showed that the risk perception, the fact that the mother had been affected by cancer, and the level of education had independent effects on the post-consultation anxiety assessment after adjusting for the depression score. These factors accounted simultaneously for 40% o... |
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