Behavioral, psychological, and social influences on risk factors, prevention, and early detection

Cullen, Joseph W.

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19821101)50:9+<1946::aid-cncr2820501309>3.0.co;2-g

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“…In fact, Cullen (1982) claims that "cancer is a preventable disease' ' (p. 1952). Over 100,OOO cancer deaths per year are causally related to cigarette smoking (Lichtenstein, 1982), and over 130,000 cancer deaths are estimated to have been preventable through earlier diagnosis and treatment (D'Onofrio, 1982).…”

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Perceptions of Controllability and Attitudes Toward Cancer and Cancer Patients¹

Meyerowitz

Williams

Gessner

1987

J Applied Social Pyschol

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This study explored the possibility that widely held beliefs that cancer is uncontrollable underlie the public's negative attitudes toward this disease. One‐hundred‐and‐sixty undergraduates read a paragraph describing a disease that was labelled either as cancer or as “Haltmar's Disease,” a fictitious disease. The descriptions were designed to manipulate subjects' perceptions regarding both the degree to which the disease could be controlled through preventive behaviors (disease preventability) and the likelihood that it could be controlled through treatment (disease treatability). Subjects then completed a questionnaire on which they indicated their attitudes toward the described disease as well as toward a patient with that disease. Results generally supported the hypothesis that when a disease is perceived as controllable it is evaluated less negatively than when it is perceived as uncontrollable. Perceptions of control also influenced attitudes toward patients with the fictitious disease. As predicted by the Just World hypothesis, attitudes toward patients with the fictitious disease were more negative when the disease was described as uncontrollable. Attitudes toward cancer patients, however, were positive regardless of level of control. Overall, cancer was described significantly more negatively than the fictitious disease and cancer (vs. Haltmar's) patients were described significantly more positively.

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Perceptions of Controllability and Attitudes Toward Cancer and Cancer Patients¹

Meyerowitz

Williams

Gessner

1987

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…Επομένως δοκιμάζουν δυσκολία να δημοσιεύσουν τα ευρήματά τους ή, όπως συχνά συμβαίνει, αναγκάζονται να δημοσι εύουν ανέκδοτα ιστορικά ασθενών ή a pri ori υποθέσεις. Όταν κάποιος προσπαθή σει να κάνει μια βιβλιογραφική επισκό πηση για να εκτιμήσει τι είναι γνωστό γύρω από μερικές ψυχοκοινωνικές διαστά σεις στην αντιμετώπιση του καρκίνου, αυτό το γεγονός επιβεβαιώνεται από τη διασπορά των περιοδικών στα οποία αυτοί «οι ερευνητές» συνήθιζαν και συνηθίζουν να δημοσιεύουν (6).…”

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