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Psychological morbidity in women at increased risk of developing breasr cancer: A controlled study
Psychological morbidity in women at increased risk of developing breasr cancer: A controlled study
dc.contributor.author | Butow, P | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Meiser, Bettina | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Price, M | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Bennetts, B | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Tucker, Katherine | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Davenport, Tracey | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hickie, Ian | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-25T13:03:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-25T13:03:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | There has been an ongoing debate in the literature on the extent to which women with a family history of breast cancer are at risk of psychological morbidity. This study compares psychological morbidity in 557 women participating in a large Australian registry of high-risk breast cancer families (kConFab) with 2 age and education matched samples, 1494 general practitioner attendees and 158 members of a twin registry. Participants completed the Somatic and Psychological Health Report (SPHERE). There were no significant differences between the three groups on psychological distress (F2, 670=1.77, p=0.17). Unsurprisingly, GP attendees reported more symptoms of somatic distress than the kConFab group (t411=2.89, p=0.004); there were no differences between the twins and the kConFab group on somatic distress (t174=0.40, p=0.687). Clinically significant anxiety/depression, a combination of psychological and somatic distress, therefore was significantly higher in GP attendees (28%) than the kConFab and twin samples (both 20%). These results refute the hypothesis that women with a family history of breast cancer are at greater psychological risk. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1057-9249 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/39035 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ | en_US |
dc.source | Legacy MARC | en_US |
dc.title | Psychological morbidity in women at increased risk of developing breasr cancer: A controlled study | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dcterms.accessRights | metadata only access | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | en_US |
unsw.accessRights.uri | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb | |
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pon.835 | en_US |
unsw.relation.faculty | Medicine & Health | |
unsw.relation.ispartofissue | 3 | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal | Psycho-Oncology | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto | 196-203 | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume | 14 | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Butow, P | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Meiser, Bettina, Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Price, M | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Bennetts, B, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Tucker, Katherine, Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Davenport, Tracey, Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Hickie, Ian, Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.school | Clinical School Prince of Wales Hospital | * |