Biased cognitive processing of cancer-related information among women with family histories of breast cancer: evidence from a cancer stroop task
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Research points out that women with the family history of breast cancer exhibit stress, which interferes on a task with cancer-related stimuli as revealed by Stroop color-naming task. They take longer times for color-naming and commit more errors on a cancer word list relative to noncancer list as determined by testing 72 women with family history of breast cancer and 96 women without.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2003
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Presurgery distress and specific response expectancies predict postsurgery outcomes in surgery patients confronting breast cancer
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A study was conducted on 63 female breast cancer patients to check the effects of presurgery distress and specific response expectancies on various postsurgery symptoms. Results showed that presurgery distress did contribute to the patients' postsurgery nausea, fatigue, and discomfort, whereas presurgery expectancies were predictors of pain unpleasantness, pain intensity and fatigue.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2004
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Spiritual health locus of control and breast cancer beliefs among urban African American women
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Results reveal that internal health locus of control is positively associated with perceived mamography benefits, while active spiritual health focus of control beliefs are associated with perceived barriers to mammography in a population study of 1,227 urban African American women.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2003
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