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Area of Science:

  • Health Psychology
  • Behavioral Science
  • Cancer Prevention Research

Background:

  • Individuals often avoid personal risk information despite potential benefits.
  • Understanding personal health risks is crucial for informed decision-making.
  • Ignorance of personal risk factors can have significant health consequences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate factors influencing women's decisions to avoid breast cancer risk information.
  • To examine the roles of perceived control, coping resources, and anticipated regret.
  • To understand psychological determinants of health information avoidance.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted involving women assessing health inventories.
  • Participants read brochures on controllable or uncontrollable breast cancer predictors, or received no information.
  • Information avoidance was measured after participants were offered personalized lifetime breast cancer risk information.

Main Results:

  • Presenting breast cancer risk as controllable decreased information avoidance compared to uncontrollable predictors or no information.
  • Lower levels of coping resources predicted greater avoidance.
  • Anticipating more regret over seeking information and less regret over avoiding it also predicted avoidance.

Conclusions:

  • Information about controllable breast cancer risk factors reduces avoidance.
  • Perceived control is a key factor in seeking health risk information.
  • Coping resources and regret influence decisions to engage with personal health risks.