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

The United Kingdom (UK) cervical screening programme has been successful in securing
participation of a high proportion of targeted women, and has seen a fall in mortality rates of …

This study described sleep in a heterogeneous sample of breast cancer patients using the
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and examined the relation between sleep disturbance …

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Risk has become a dominant way to interpret who gets sick and why. A distinction has been
drawn between two categories of risk: those arising from the environment, and those …

Objective and Participants: In 2006, the authors examined intention to receive an HPV
vaccine among 340 college students. Methods: A total of 138 men and 202 women …

Objective To describe the psychological impact on women of being tested for human
papillomavirus (HPV) when smear test results are borderline or mildly dyskaryotic. Design …

The potential for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing in cervical cancer prevention
programs has been a topic at the forefront of cervical cancer policy discussions in recent …

Background Before cervical cancer develops the cells of the cervix become abnormal.
Following an abnormal cervical smear colposcopy is performed. Colposcopy is the …

The aim of this review is to determine the frequency and circumstances under which
predicting individuals' risk of illness has adverse psychological effects. Using systematic …