title: Using the common-sense model to predict risk perception and disease-related worry in individuals at increased risk for venous thrombosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Psychology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. a.a.kaptein@lumc.nl
authors.forename: Ad A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kaptein
authors.forename: Inez M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: van Korlaar
authors.forename: Linda D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.forename: Carla Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Vossen
authors.forename: Felix J M
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: van der Meer
authors.forename: Frits R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Rosendaal
mesh_terms: 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*