Answering Patient Questions about the Role Lifestyle Factors Play in Cancer Onset and Recurrence
Autor: | Jane Wardle, Alice E. Simon, Anne Miles |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: |
Male
Gerontology Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Alcohol Drinking Attitude of Health Personnel Temperance Body Mass Index Causes of cancer Breast cancer Patient Education as Topic Risk Factors Neoplasms Interview Psychological Health care Humans Medicine Family history Exercise Life Style Applied Psychology Physician-Patient Relations business.industry Public health Smoking Social environment Cancer Feeding Behavior Awareness medicine.disease Distress England Family medicine Female Smoking Cessation Neoplasm Recurrence Local business |
Zdroj: | Journal of Health Psychology. 15:291-298 |
ISSN: | 1461-7277 1359-1053 |
Popis: | This qualitative study examined how cancer specialists answer patient questions about what might have caused their cancer. Findings showed that while they were often candid about the role of smoking and drinking in cancer onset and that of diet in cancer recurrence, body weight and exercise were rarely mentioned. Any reluctance to discuss the role of lifestyle factors in cancer onset and recurrence arose from a desire to minimize patient distress, limitations in specialists’ knowledge of the causes of cancer and perceived inadequacy of the available causal explanations when risk factors are multiple and probabilistic. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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