TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations between risk perceptions and worry about common diseases
T2 - A between- and within-subjects examination
AU - Shiloh, Shoshana
AU - Wade, Christopher H.
AU - Roberts, J. Scott
AU - Alford, Sharon Hensley
AU - Biesecker, Barbara B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. The research was made possible through collaboration with the Cancer Research Network funded by the National Cancer Institute (U19CA 079689). Group Health Research Institute and Henry Ford Hospital provided additional resources. Additionally, this study was supported in part by an appointment to the Senior Fellowship Program at the National Institutes of Health. This program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
Funding Information:
The Multiplex Initiative was a collaborative transdisciplinary research project of the National Human Genome Research Institute (Bethesda, MD), the Cancer Research Network funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Group Health Cooperative (Seattle, WA) and the Henry Ford Health System (Detroit, MI). The participants were recruited from a sample of 350,000 members of the Henry Ford Health System. Enrollment required that participants be 25–40 years old, self-identified as White or African American, and not affected with type 2 diabetes, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, or cancer. The procedures and structure of the Multiplex Initiative are described in more detail elsewhere (Alford et al., 2011; McBride et al., 2008, 2009).
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - The relationships between worry and perceptions of likelihood and severity were evaluated across eight common diseases. Individual and disease variability in worry and perceptions were examined. 294 participants were recruited through the Multiplex Initiative, in which a genetic susceptibility test for eight common diseases was offered to healthy adults. Participants completed a baseline telephone survey and web-based surveys without a commitment to be tested, and then made a choice on testing. Between- and within-subjects analyses yielded the following main findings: (1) worry is more closely related to likelihood perceptions than to severity perceptions; (2) severity perceptions add significantly to explained worry variances above and beyond likelihood perceptions; (3) risk perceptions and worries form two clusters: cancer diseases and cardiovascular-metabolic diseases; and (4) variance in risk perception and worry is explained by a combination of between- and within-subjects variances. Risk perception research should attend to severity perceptions, within-subjects variability and inter-disease differences, and to strategies for grouping conditions.
AB - The relationships between worry and perceptions of likelihood and severity were evaluated across eight common diseases. Individual and disease variability in worry and perceptions were examined. 294 participants were recruited through the Multiplex Initiative, in which a genetic susceptibility test for eight common diseases was offered to healthy adults. Participants completed a baseline telephone survey and web-based surveys without a commitment to be tested, and then made a choice on testing. Between- and within-subjects analyses yielded the following main findings: (1) worry is more closely related to likelihood perceptions than to severity perceptions; (2) severity perceptions add significantly to explained worry variances above and beyond likelihood perceptions; (3) risk perceptions and worries form two clusters: cancer diseases and cardiovascular-metabolic diseases; and (4) variance in risk perception and worry is explained by a combination of between- and within-subjects variances. Risk perception research should attend to severity perceptions, within-subjects variability and inter-disease differences, and to strategies for grouping conditions.
KW - likelihood
KW - risk perception
KW - severity
KW - within-subjects
KW - worry
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84875212415&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08870446.2012.737464
DO - 10.1080/08870446.2012.737464
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AN - SCOPUS:84875212415
SN - 0887-0446
VL - 28
SP - 434
EP - 449
JO - Psychology and Health
JF - Psychology and Health
IS - 4
ER -
