Looking forward and back: Distress among women at familial risk for breast cancer

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-59

  Erblich, Joel ^a   Bovbjerg, Dana H ^b   Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis B ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CAREGIVER; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY;

EID: 0033859124     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02895167     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Offit K, Brown K: Quantitating familial cancer risk: A resource for clinical oncologists. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 1994, 12:1724-1736.
2. Hyland JM, Novotny ES, Coyne L, Travis JW, Pruyser H: Coping with difficult-to-treat cancer patients. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 1984, 48:329-341.
3. Lerman C, Kash K, Stefanek M: Younger women at increased risk for breast cancer: Perceived risk, psychological well-being, and surveillance behavior. Monographs of the National Cancer Institute. 1994, 16:171-176.
4. Lerman CL, Schwartz M: Adherence and psychological adjustment among women at high risk for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 1993, 28:145-155.
5. Lerman C, Daly M, Sands C, et al: Mammography adherence and psychological distress among women at risk for breast cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1993, 85:1074-1080.
6. Valdimarsdottir HB, Bovbjerg DH, Kash K, et al: Psychological distress in women with a familial risk of breast cancer. Psycho-Oncology. 1995, 4:133-141.
7. Lloyd S, Watson M, Waites B, et al: Familial breast cancer: A controlled study of risk perception, psychological morbidity, and health beliefs in women attending for genetic counselling. British Journal of Cancer. 1996, 74:482-487.
8. Gilbar O: Women with high risk for breast cancer: Psychological symptoms. Psychological Reports. 1997, 80:800-802.
9. Wellisch DK, Gritz ER, Schain W, Wang HJ, Siau J: Psychological functioning of daughters of breast cancer patients: Daughters and comparison subjects. Psychosomatics. 1991, 52:324-336.
10. Zakowski SG, Valdimarsdottir HB, Bovbjerg D, et al: Predictors of intrusive thoughts and avoidance in women with family histories of breast cancer. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 1997, 19:362-369.
11. Siegel K, Karus DG, Raveis VH, Christ GH, Mesagno FP: Depressive distress among the spouses of terminally ill cancer patients. Cancer Practice. 1996, 4:25-30.
12. Kurtz ME, Kurtz JC, Given CW, Given B: Predictors of postbereave-ment depressive symptomatology among family caregivers of cancer patients. Support Care Cancer. 1997, 5:53-60.
13. Brown MA, Stetz K: The labor of caregiving: A theoretical model caregiving during potentially fatal illness. Qualitative Health Research. 1999, 9:182-197.
14. Bar-Tal Y, Cohen-Mansfield J, Golander H: Which stress matters? The examination of temporal aspects of stress. Journal of Psychology. 1998, 132:569-576.
15. Wellisch DK, Gritz ER, Schain W, Wang HJ, Siau J: Psychological functioning of daughters of breast cancer patients, Part II: Characterizing the distressed daughter of the breast cancer patient. Psychosomatics. 1992, 53:171-179.
16. Claus EB, Schildkraut JM, Thompson WD, Risch NJ: The genetic attributable risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Cancer. 1996, 77:2318-2324.
17. Gail MH, Brinton LA, Byar DP: Projecting individualized probabilities of developing breast cancer for White females who are being examined annually. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1989, 81:1879-1886.
18. Derogatis LR: Brief Symptom Inventory, Administration, Scoring, and Procedures Manual (3rd Ed.). Minneapolis, MN: National Computer Systems, Inc., 1993.
19. Horowitz M, Wilner N, Alvarez W: Impact of event scale: A measure of subjective stress. Psychosomatic Medicine. 1979, 41:209-218.
20. Durfy SJ, Bowen DJ, McTiernan A, Sporleder J, Burke W: Attitudes and interest in genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility in diverse groups of women in western Washington. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 1999, 8:369-375.
21. Baron RM, Kenny DA: The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1986, 51:1173-1182.
22. Horowitz MJ: Stress Response Syndromes. New York: Aronson, 1976.
23. Nijboer C, Triemstra M, Tempelaar R, Sanderman R, van den Boss GAM: Measuring both negative and positive reactions to giving care to cancer patients: Psychometric qualities of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA). Social Science and Medicine. 1999, 48:1259-1269.
24. Schofield HL, Murphy B, Herrman HE, Bloch S, Singh B: Family caregiving: Measurement of emotional well-being and various aspects of the caregiving role. Psychological Medicine. 1997, 27:647-657.
25. Pearlin LI, Mullan JT, Semple SJ, Skaff MM: Caregiving and the stress process: An overview of concepts and their measures. Journal of Gerontology. 1990, 30:583-594.