Using the common-sense model to predict risk perception and disease-related worry in individuals at increased risk for venous thrombosis.
OBJECTIVE
This study applied the Common-Sense Model (CSM) to predict risk perception and disease-related worry in 174 individuals with a genetic predisposition to venous thrombosis (thrombophilia).


METHODS
Participants completed an adapted version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) and measures assessing risk perception and worry.


RESULTS
Regression analyses revealed that illness perceptions were predictors of risk perception and thrombosis worry. The hypothesis that illness perceptions mediate the relationship between a person's experience of venous thrombosis and perceived risk and thrombosis worry could not be confirmed.


CONCLUSIONS
Further research should refine the IPQ-R for populations at risk of a disease and examine the value of the CSM in explaining the relationship between risk perception, worry, and health behavior.
Kaptein
Ad A
AA
Unit of Psychology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. a.a.kaptein@lumc.nl
van Korlaar
Inez M
IM
Cameron
Linda D
LD
Vossen
Carla Y
CY
van der Meer
Felix J M
FJ
Rosendaal
Frits R
FR
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012044:Regression Analysis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*; D019851:Thrombophilia / Q000523:psychology*; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000517:prevention & control*