Cognitive and Emotional Factors Predicting Decisional Conflict Among High-Risk Breast Cancer Survivors Who Receive Uninformative BRCA1/2 Results

Health Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 569-578

  Rini, Christine ^a   O'Neill, Suzanne C ^b   Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis ^a,c   Goldsmith, Rachel E ^a   Jandorf, Lina ^a   Brown, Karen ^a   DeMarco, Tiffani A ^b   Peshkin, Beth N ^b   Schwartz, Marc D ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

BRCA; breast cancer; decision making; decisional conflict; genetic testing

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 70350503770     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015205     Document Type: Article

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