Coping style, psychological distress, risk perception, and satisfaction in subjects attending genetic counselling for hereditary cancer

[...]of the recent developments in DNA testing and the knowledge that cancer can be hereditary, it is now possible to offer genetic counselling to people within identified "cancer families", and to inform them about their assumed increased risk for developing cancer. Monitors were not only...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of medical genetics 2002-09, Vol.39 (9), p.689-694
Hauptverfasser:	Nordin, K, Lidén, A, Hansson, M, Rosenquist, R, Berglund, G
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adaptation, Psychological Adult Aged Amniocentesis Beliefs, opinions and attitudes Biological and medical sciences Breast cancer Breast Neoplasms - genetics Breast Neoplasms - psychology Breast Neoplasms/genetics/psychology Cancer Colorectal cancer Colorectal Neoplasms - genetics Colorectal Neoplasms - psychology Colorectal Neoplasms/genetics/psychology Communication coping style Counseling Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA Epidemiology Estimates familial adenomatous polyposis Familial diseases Family medical history FAP Female Genetic aspects Genetic counseling Genetic Counseling - methods Genetic Counseling - psychology Genetic Counseling/methods/psychology genetic counselling Genetic Screening/psychology Genetic Testing - psychology HADS Health aspects Health risk assessment hereditary cancer hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer HNPCC Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Humans Letter to JMG Male MBSS Medical sciences Middle Aged Miller Behavioural Style Scale monitoring minus blunting Mutation Neoplasms - diagnosis Neoplasms - genetics Neoplasms - psychology Neoplasms/diagnosis/genetics/psychology Ovarian cancer Ovarian Neoplasms - genetics Ovarian Neoplasms - psychology Ovarian Neoplasms/genetics/psychology Patient Satisfaction Patients Perceptions Psychological aspects Risk Factors Satisfaction with Genetic Counselling Scale SCS Social aspects Statistics Statistics as Topic Stress, Psychological - psychology Studies Threatening Medical Situations Inventory TMSI Tumors Women Womens health
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Zusammenfassung:	[...]of the recent developments in DNA testing and the knowledge that cancer can be hereditary, it is now possible to offer genetic counselling to people within identified "cancer families", and to inform them about their assumed increased risk for developing cancer. Monitors were not only less satisfied with "Information", they also reported more psychological distress compared to non-Monitors. [...]both psychological distress and satisfaction in connection with the counselling seem to be mediated by the person's coping style.
ISSN:	0022-2593 1468-6244 1468-6244
DOI:	10.1136/jmg.39.9.689