title: Judging risk for multiple diseases: the role of disease worry.
abstract: Risk perceptions and disease worry of 1,959 healthy adults were measured in a telephone-based survey. In the model for each of eight health conditions, people's perceived risk was related to their worry for that condition (p < .0001) and their worry for the other seven conditions (p < .001). There was also an interaction indicating that the less people were worried about a certain condition, the more their worry about the other seven conditions increased their risk perception for that condition (p < .0001). The results are important for preventing biased risk perceptions in multiple-disease contexts.
authors: National Institutes of Health, USA. ibrahim.senay@zirve.edu.tr
authors: Ibrahim
authors: I
authors: Senay
authors: Sharon
authors: S
authors: Hensley-Alford
authors: Kimberly A
authors: KA
authors: Kaphingst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005820:Genetic Testing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D036301:Qualitative Research; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013315:Stress, Psychological