The overall goal of this volume is to foster an integrated understanding of a self-regulation
perspective of health and illness behavior. Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning …

Background. Two main psychologic coping styles for dealing with cancer and other health
threats have been identified: monitoring (attending to) or blunting (avoiding) potentially …

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented
challenges for the oncology community. For people living with cancer, treatments are …

Logistic regression (LR) is a widely used multivariable method for modeling dichotomous
outcomes. This article examines use and reporting of LR in the medical literature by …

Objectives.—To identify predictors of utilization of breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility
(BRCA1gene) testing and to evaluate outcomes of participation in a testing program …

Background Prior research has shown that many cancer survivors experience ongoing fears
of cancer recurrence (FCR) and that this chronic uncertainty of health status during and after …

Background: In 9% to 34% of cancer patients, the fear of cancer recurrence becomes so
overwhelming that it affects quality of life. Clinicians need a brief questionnaire with a cutoff …

Objective Cancer patients are at increased risk for psychological difficulties and COVID-19.
We sought to analyze anxiety and depression levels during the COVID-19 pandemic and the …

Understanding stress and coping is essential to health education, health promotion, and
disease prevention. Stressors are demands made by the internal or external environment …

This article applies recent developments in cognitive–social theory to health-protective
behavior, articulating a Cognitive-Social Health Information Processing (C-SHIP) model …