Core - Risk

Lipkus, Isaac

Abstract

There has been a paucity of research exploring how best to communicate cancer risk information, and how this information affects risk perception accuracy, behavioral change, and informed decision-making about precautionary health behaviors. The risk core will be uniquely suited to examine these issues in an experimental environment that will be of fundamental importance to the construction of efficient and effective intervention materials among program projects. The benefits of the risk core to the program projects include: 1) the flexibility to test ideas via different methodologies (e.g., laboratory studies, focus groups, etc.) needed by projects in a timely manner, 2) being responsive to the needs of projects as they emerge, 3) testing ideas before they are implemented among projects hence saving the time, efforts, and costs related to duplication of efforts among independent ~searchers, along with the added advantage of developing further ideas that show promising results in the lab as intervention strategies, 4) using methodologies that maintain experimental control, and 5) being the central arena for the integration and dissemination of information allowing for greater synergy among projects. For these reasons, the risk core is a necessary component of the CPRU with advantages that outweigh the implementation of separate small population studies and analyses of preexisting data sets.

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Type: Research Program Projects (P01)
• Project #: 1P01CA072099-01
• Application #: 5209590
• Support Year: 1
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Publications

Bosworth, Hayden B; Bastian, Lori A; Grambow, Steven C et al. (2005) Initiation and discontinuation of hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms: results from a community sample. J Behav Med 28:105-14

Bepler, Gerold; Zheng, Zhong; Gautam, Ashish et al. (2005) Ribonucleotide reductase M1 gene promoter activity, polymorphisms, population frequencies, and clinical relevance. Lung Cancer 47:183-92

Porter, Laura S; Keefe, Francis J; Lipkus, Isaac et al. (2005) Ambivalence over emotional expression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer and their caregivers: associations with patient pain and quality of life. Pain 117:340-8

Arredondo, Elva M; Pollak, Kathryn I; Costanzo, Philip et al. (2003) Primary care residents' characteristics and motives for providing differential medical treatment of cervical cancer screening. J Natl Med Assoc 95:576-84

Yarnall, Kimberly S H; Pollak, Kathryn I; Ostbye, Truls et al. (2003) Primary care: is there enough time for prevention? Am J Public Health 93:635-41

Bosworth, Hayden B; Bastian, Lori A; Rimer, Barbara K et al. (2003) Coping styles and personality domains related to menopausal stress. Womens Health Issues 13:32-8

Dominick, Kelli L; Skinner, Celette Sugg; Bastian, Lori A et al. (2003) Provider characteristics and mammography recommendation among women in their 40s and 50s. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 12:61-71

Keefe, Francis J; Ahles, Tim A; Porter, Laura S et al. (2003) The self-efficacy of family caregivers for helping cancer patients manage pain at end-of-life. Pain 103:157-62

Meissner, Helen I; Rimer, Barbara K; Davis, William W et al. (2003) Another round in the mammography controversy. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 12:261-76

Keefe, Francis J; Lipkus, Isaac; Lefebvre, John C et al. (2003) The social context of gastrointestinal cancer pain: a preliminary study examining the relation of patient pain catastrophizing to patient perceptions of social support and caregiver stress and negative responses. Pain 103:151-6