Predictors of perceived breast cancer risk and the relation between perceived risk and breast cancer screening: A meta-analytic review

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 388-402

  Katapodi, Maria C ^a   Lee, Kathy A ^a   Facione, Noreen C ^b   Dodd, Marylin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Meta analysis; Optimistic bias; Perceived risk; Prevention; Screening

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ANXIETY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; EMOTION; ERROR; FAMILY HISTORY; GENDER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MEASUREMENT; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCINFO; RACE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542358722     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2003.11.012     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. American Cancer Society Cancer facts and figures. 2003;. http://www.cancer.org.
2. California Breast Cancer Research Program Breast cancer in California: advances in breast cancer research. 2001;17-37 University of California, Office of the President.
3. Leventhal H., Kelly K., Leventhal E.A. Population risk, actual risk, perceived risk, and cancer control: a discussion. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. Monogr. 25:1999;81-85.
4. Altpeter M., Earp J.A., Schopler J.H. Promoting breast cancer screening in rural, African-American communities: the "science and art" of community health promotion. Health Soc. Work. 23:1998;104-115.
5. Hiatt R.A., Pasick R. Unsolved problems in early breast cancer detection: focus on the underserved. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 40:1996;37-51.
6. Vernon S.W. Risk perception and risk communication for cancer screening behaviors: a review. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. Monogr. 25:1999;101-119.
7. Roche R.A., Stovall C.E., Suarez L., Goldman D.A., Wright S.A., Mendez M.C. Language differences in interpretation of breast cancer health messages. J. Cancer Educ. 13:1998;226-230.
8. Slovic P. Perception of risk. Science. 236:1987;280-285.
9. Facione N.C., Giancarlo C.A., Chan L. Perceived risk and help-seeking behavior for breast cancer: a Chinese American perspective. Cancer Nurs. 23:2000;258-267.
10. Silverman E., Woloshin S., Schwartz L.M., Byram S.J., Welch H.G., Fischhoff B. Women's views on breast cancer risk and screening mammography: a qualitative interview study. Med. Decis. Making. 21:2001;231-240.
11. Rosenstock I.M. Prevention of illness and maintenance of health. Kosa J. Poverty and health: a social analysis. 1975;Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
12. Leventhal H., Meyer D., Nerenz D. The common sense representation of illness danger. Reachman S. Contributions to medical psychology. 1980;Pergamon, Oxford.
13. Ajzen I., Fischbein M. Understanding attitudes and predicting behavior. 1980;Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
14. Rogers R.W. A protection motivation theory of fear appeals and attitude change. J. Psychol. 91:1975;93-114.
15. Weinstein N.D. The precaution adoption model. Health Psychol. 7:1988;355-386.
16. McCaul K.D., Branstetter A.D., Glasgow R.E., Schroeder D.M. What is the relationship between breast cancer risk and mammography screening? A meta-analytic review. Health Psychol. 15:1996;423-429.
17. Aiken L.S., Fenaughty A.M., West S.G., Johnson J.J., Luckett T.L. Perceived determinants of risk for breast cancer and the relations among objective risk, perceived risk, and screening behavior over time. Womens Health. 1:1995;27-50.
18. Petitti D.B. Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Petiti D.B. Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics. 1994;33-82 Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
19. Johnson B.T. DSTAT: software for the meta-analytic review of research literature. 1990;Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Cambridge.
20. Trixopoulos D. Epidemiology: principles, methods, applications. 1982;Parisianos G. Athens, GR.
21. Cohen J., Cohen P. Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences. 1983;Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.
22. Absetz P., Aro A.R., Rehnberg G., Sutton S.R. Comparative optimism in breast cancer perception: effects of experience and risk factor knowledge. Psychol. Health Med. 5:2000;376-386.
23. Clarke V.A., Lovegrove H., Williams A., Machperson M. Unrealistic optimism and the health belief model. J. Behav. Med. 23:2000;367-376.
24. Facione N.C. Perceived risk of breast cancer: influence of heuristic thinking. Cancer Pract. 10:2002;256-262.
25. Lipkus I.M., Kuchibhatla M., McBride C.M., Bosworth H.B., Pollak K.I., Siegler I.C.et al. Relationships among breast cancer perceived absolute risk, comparative risk, and worries. Cancer Epidemiol., Biomarkers Prev. 9:2000;973-975.
26. McDonald P.A., Thorne D.D., Pearson J.C., Adams-Campbell L.L. Perceptions and knowledge of breast cancer among African-American women residing in public housing. Ethn. Dis. 9:1999;81-93.
27. Evans D.G., Blair V., Greenhalgh R., Hopwood P., Howell A. The impact of genetic counseling on risk perception in women with a family history of breast cancer. Br. J. Cancer. 70:1994;934-938.
28. Foster C., Evans D.G., Eeles R., Eccles D., Ashley S., Brooks L.et al. Predictive testing for BRCA1/2: attributes, risk perception, and management in a multi-center clinical cohort. Br. J. Cancer. 86:2002;1209-1216.
29. Daly M.B., Lerman C., Ross E., Schwartz M.D., Sands C.B., Masny A. Gail model breast cancer risk components are poor predictors of risk perception and screening behavior. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 41:1996;59-70.
30. Dolan N.C., Lee A.M., McGrae-McDermott M. Age-related differences in breast carcinoma knowledge, beliefs, and perceived risk among women visiting an academic general medicine practice. Cancer. 80:1997;413-420.
31. Meiser B., Butow P., Barratt A., Gattas M., Gaff C., Haan E.et al. Risk perceptions and knowledge of breast cancer genetics in women at increased risk of developing hereditary breast cancer. Psychol. Health. 16:2001;297-311.
32. Metcalfe K., Narod S. Breast cancer risk perception among women who have undergone prophylactic bilateral mastectomy. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 94:2002;1564-1569.
33. Lipkus I.M., Iden D., Terrenoire J., Feaganes J.R. Relationships among breast cancer concern, risk perceptions, and interest in genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility among African American women with and without a family history of breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol., Biomarkers Prev. 8:1999;533-539.
34. Nunnally J.C., Bernstein I.H. Psychometric theory. Nunnally J.C., Bernstein I.H. Series in psychology. 1994;McGraw-Hill, San Francisco.
35. Foxall M.J., Barron C.R., Houfek J.F. Ethnic differences on body awareness, trait anxiety, perceived risk, and breast and gynecologic cancer screening practices. Oncol. Nurs. Forum. 28:2001;727-751.
36. Donovan K.A., Tucker D.C. Knowledge about genetic risk for breast cancer and perceptions of genetic testing in a sociodemographically diverse sample. J. Behav. Med. 23:2000;15-36.
37. Erblich J., Bovbjerg D.H., Norman C., Valdimarsdottir H.B., Montgomery G.H. It won't happen to me: lower perception of heart disease risk among women with family histories of breast cancer. Prev. Med. 31:2000;714-721.
38. Lipkus I.M., Halabi S., Strigo T.S., Rimer B.K. The impact of abnormal mammograms on psychosocial outcomes and subsequent screening. Psycho-oncology. 9:2000;402-410.
39. Vernon S.W., Vogel V.G., Halabi S., Bondy M. Factors associated with perceived risk of breast cancer screening among women attending a screening program. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 28:1993;137-144.
40. Brain K., Norman P., Gray J., Mansel R. Anxiety and adherence to breast self-examination in women with a family history of breast cancer. Psychosom. Med. 61:1999;181-187.
41. Lindberg N.M., Wellisch D.K. Anxiety and compliance among women at high risk for breast cancer. Ann. Behav. Med. 23:2001;298-303.
42. Bowen D., McTiernan A., Burke W., Powers D., Pruski J., Durfy S.et al. Participation in breast cancer risk counseling among women with a family history. Cancer Epidemiol., Biomarkers Prev. 8:1999;581-585.
43. Jacobsen P.B., Valdimarsdottir H.B., Brown K.L., Offit K. Decision-making about genetic testing among women at familial risk for breast cancer. Psychosom. Med. 59:1997;459-466.
44. Culver J., Burke W., Yasui Y., Durfy S., Press N. Participation in breast cancer genetic counseling: the influence of educational level, ethnic background, and risk perception. J. Genet. Couns. 10:2001;215-231.
45. Hatcher M.B., Fallowfield L., A'Hern R. The psychosocial impact of bilateral prophylactic mastectomy: prospective study using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Br. Med. J. 322:2001;1-6.
46. Stefanek M.E., Helzlsouer K.J., Wilcox P.M., Houn F. Predictors of and satisfaction with bilateral prophylactic mastectomy. Prev. Med. 24:1995;412-419.
47. Weinstein N.D. Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems. J. Behav. Med. 5:1982;441-460.
48. Weinstein N.D. Why it won't happen to me: perceptions of risk factors and susceptibility. Health Psychol. 3:1984;431-457.
49. Weinstein N.D. Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems: conclusions from a community-wide sample. J. Behav. Med. 10:1987;481-500.
50. Weinstein N.D., Klein W.M. Resistance of personal risk perceptions to debiasing interventions. Health Psychol. 14:1995;132-140.
51. Weinstein N.D. Optimistic biases about personal risks. Science. 246:1989;1232-1233.
52. Weinstein N.D. Reducing unrealistic optimism about illness susceptibility. Health Psychol. 2:1983;11-20.
53. Weinstein N.D. What does it mean to understand a risk? Evaluating risk comprehension. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. Monogr. 25:1999;15-20.
54. Carney P.A., Harwood B.G., Weiss J.E., Eliassen M.S., Goodrich M.E. Factors associated with interval adherence to mammography screening in a population-based sample of New Hampshire women. Cancer. 95:2002;219-227.
55. Drossaert C.H., Boer H., Seydel E.R. Perceived risk, anxiety, mammogram uptake, and breast self-examination of women with a family history of breast cancer: the role of knowing to be at increased risk. Cancer Detect. Prev. 20:1996;76-85.
56. Finney L.J., Iannoti R.J. The impact of family history of breast cancer on women's health beliefs, salience of breast cancer family history, and degree of involvement in breast cancer issues. Women Health. 33:2001;15-28.
57. McCaul K.D., Schroeder D.M., Reid P.A. Breast cancer worry and screening: some prospective data. Health Psychol. 15:1996;430-433.
58. Hallowell N., Green J.M., Statham H., Murton F., Richards M.P. Recall of numerical risk estimates and counselees' perceptions of the importance of risk information following genetic counseling for breast and ovarian cancer. Psychol. Health Med. 2:1997;149-159.
59. Schwartz L.M., Woloshin S., Black W.C., Welch H.G. The role of numeracy in understanding the benefit of screening mammography. Ann. Intern. Med. 127:1997;966-972.
60. Windschitl P.D. Judging the accuracy of a likelihood judgment: the case of smoking risk. J. Behav. Decis. Mak. 15:2002;19-35.
61. Champion V.L. Instrument development for health belief model constructs. Adv. Nurs. Sci. 1984 (April);73-85.
62. Champion V., Scott C.R. Reliability and validity of breast cancer screening belief scales in African-American women. Nurs. Res. 46:1997;331-337.
63. Champion V.L. Instrument refinement for breast cancer screening behaviors. Nurs. Res. 42:1993;139-143.
64. Kahneman D., Tversky A. Choices, values, and frames. Am. Psychol. 39:1984;341-350.
65. Audrain J., Lerman C., Rimer B., Cella D., Steffens R., Gomez-Caminero A.et al. Awareness of heightened breast cancer risk among first-degree relatives for recently diagnosed breast cancer patients. Cancer Epidemiol., Biomarkers Prev. 4:1995;561-565.
66. Hughes C., Lerman C., Lustbader E. Ethnic differences in risk perception among women at increased risk for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 40:1996;25-35.
67. Cunningham L.C., Andrykowski M.A., Wilson J.F., McGrath P.C., Sloan D.A., Kenady D.E. Physical symptoms, distress, and breast cancer risk perceptions in women with benign breast problems. Health Psychol. 17:1998;371-375.
68. Easterling D.V., Leventhal H. Contribution of concrete cognition to emotion: neutral symptoms as elicitors of worry about cancer. J. Appl. Psychol. 74:1989;787-796.
69. Ajzen I., Madden T.J. Prediction of goal-directed behavior: attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 22:1986;453-474.
70. Mamon J.A., Zapka J.G. Breast self-examination by young women: characteristics associated with frequency. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2:1986;61-69.
71. Russell K.M., Champion V.L., Perkins S.M. Development of cultural belief scales for mammography screening. Oncol. Nurs. Forum. 30:2003;633-639.
72. Andrykowski M.A., Carpenter J.S., Studts J.L., Cordova M.J., Cunning M.W., Sloan D.A.et al. Adherence to recommendations for clinical follow-up after benign breast biopsy. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 69:2001;165-178.
73. Black W.C., Nease R.F., Tosteson A.N. Perceptions of breast cancer risk and screening effectiveness in women younger than 50 years of age. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. Monogr. 87:1995;720-731.
74. Bondy M.L., Vogel V.G., Halabi S., Lustbader E.D. Identification of women at increased risk for breast cancer in a population-based screening program. Cancer Epidemiol., Biomarkers Prev. 1:1992;141-147.
75. Clemow L., Costanza M.E., Haddad W.P., Luckmann R., White M.J., Klaus D.et al. Underutilizers of mammography screening today: characteristics of women planning, undecided about, and not planning a mammogram. Ann. Behav. Med. 22:2000;80-88.
76. Cockburn J., Sutherland M., Cappiello M., Hevern M. Predictors of attendance at a re-locatable mammography service for rural women. Aust. N. Z. J. Public Health. 21:1997;739-742.
77. Cole S.R., Bryant C.A., McDermott R.J., Sorrell C., Flynn M. Beliefs and mammography screening. Am. J. Prev. Med. 13:1997;439-443.
78. Diefenbach M.A., Miller S.M., Daly M.B. Specific worry about breast cancer predicts mammography use in women at risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Health Psychol. 18:1999;532-536.
79. Mouchawar J., Byers T., Cutter G., Dignan M., Michael S. A study of the relationships between family history of breast cancer and knowledge of breast cancer genetic testing prerequisites. Cancer Detect. Prev. 23:1999;22-30.
80. Polednak A.P., Lane D.S., Burg M.A. Risk perception, family history, and use of breast cancer screening tests. Cancer Detect. Prev. 15:1991;257-263.
81. Schwartz M.D., Rimer B.K., Daly M., Sands C., Lerman C. A randomized trial of breast cancer risk counseling: the impact on self-reported mammography use. Am. J. Public Health. 86:1999;924-926.
82. Diefenbach M.A., Weistein N.D., O'Reilly J. Scales for assessing perceptions of health hazard susceptibility. Health Educ. Res. 8:1993;181-192.