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- Title
Beliefs and beyond: what can we learn from qualitative studies of lay people's understandings of cancer risk?
- Authors
Lipworth, Wendy L; Davey, Heather M; Carter, Stacy M; Hooker, Claire; Hu, Wendy
- Abstract
Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However, people often resist the risk-related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models of risk that conflict with expert views. Quantitative studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of health beliefs and various cognitive and emotional processes in shaping risk perception. More recently, a growing body of qualitative research has emerged, exploring lay conceptualizations, experiences and constructions of cancer risk. To date, this literature has not been synthesized.
- Publication
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 2010, Vol 13, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
1369-7625
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00601.x