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The structure and demographic correlates of cancer fear

Vrinten, C; van Jaarsveld, CH; Waller, J; von Wagner, C; Wardle, J; (2014) The structure and demographic correlates of cancer fear. BMC Cancer , 14 , Article 597. 10.1186/1471-2407-14-597. Green open access

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Abstract

Cancer is often described as the 'number one' health fear, but little is known about whether this affects quality of life by translating into high levels of worry or distress in everyday life, or which population groups are most affected. This study examined the prevalence of three components of cancer fear in a large community sample in the UK and explored associations with demographic characteristics.

Type: Article
Title: The structure and demographic correlates of cancer fear
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-597
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-597
Language: English
Additional information: © 2014 Vrinten et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1443224
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