Attributions of responsibility in adolescent cancer patients and their parents
| Autor: | Cummings Km, Michael A. Zevon, Cameron K. Tebbi, Richards Me |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Adult
Adolescent Concordance Adolescent cancer Health Behavior Psychological intervention Compliance (psychology) Judgment Neoplasms Humans Parent-Child Relations Child Problem Solving Illness behavior Medical model Analysis of Variance Social Responsibility Salience (language) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sick Role Self Care Oncology Adolescent Behavior Patient Compliance Attribution Psychology Attitude to Health Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education. 4(2) |
| ISSN: | 0885-8195 |
| Popis: | Attributions of responsibility have been shown to be important determinants of illness behavior in adults. This study examines the salience of attributional judgements among adolescents with cancer. Patients and their parents were categorized according to their attributions of responsibility for the cause of and solution to the adolescent's health problems into one of four attributional models. Of the four possible models, only two were represented: the medical and compensatory. Only 37.5% of parent/child pairs were concordant for model choice. Patients whose attributions conformed to those of the compensatory model sought more information (F = 5.1, (P = .03), were satisfied with the information supplied (F = 3.5, P = .07), and expressed the belief that a greater percentage of prescribed medications needed to be taken if a cure was to result (F = 4.1, P = .05). Side effects were more often experienced by patients whose responsibility attributions exemplified the medical model (F = 5.09, P = .03). Model concordance did not relate to parent/child agreement on health-related beliefs, patient age, sex, or compliance measures (P greater than .05). No relationship was found between parent-child model concordance and patient's self-reported medication compliance. The present data do not support the notion that attributions of responsibility for cause and solution of cancer should be important targets of interventions designed to increase medication compliance among cancer patients. |
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