Suzanne Miller

..Little is known about the relationship among knowledge, self-efficacy, preparation, decisional conflict, and patient decisions to take part in CCTs...

..These findings indicate that when designing decision aids, demographic, medical history, and psychosocial variables need to be addressed in order to facilitate quality decision making...

..Practitioners need to gain a better understanding of the opportunities for cancer-specific primary prevention, because such an understanding could enhance the management of chronic disease...

..These results extend the theory of planned behavior by showing that gender and generation influence intention when the relative's opinion is unknown...

..We therefore developed measures to assess patient communication preferences and established feasibility of an Internet-based intervention to improve communication...

..Our study objective was to understand factors related to women's use of CRC screening. We examined the personal health, medical care, and psychosocial responses to CRC and screening use of a community-based sample of women...

..Increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is a public health goal. We hypothesized that non-compliant, average risk women would demonstrate low levels of CRC knowledge and underestimate their CRC risk...

..It is important to understand consumer attitudes toward utilization of PHRs and HIE to evaluate the public's willingness to adopt these new health care tools...

..This paper highlights the development of a theory-guided, web-based communication aid (CONNECT), designed to facilitate treatment decision-making among patients with advanced cancer...

..Research suggests that stress is associated with cervical disease progression, but few studies have examined the biological mechanisms that may be driving this association...

..The objective of the current study was to describe cancer patient values regarding QOL and LOL and explore associations with communication preferences...

..We concluded that characterizing oncologist and patient perceived barriers can help improve communication and decision making about clinical trials, such that participation may be optimized...

..We sought to characterize barriers to prevention trial participation among medical oncologists and first-degree relatives of their patients...

..The present study was a longitudinal study of the effects of perceived control and problem-focused coping on changes in psychological adjustment and behavioural outcomes among women at increased risk for ovarian cancer...

..This study evaluated changes in smoking-related beliefs and behavior following a brief, culturally adapted smoking cessation intervention for Chinese and Korean smokers...

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..The results indicate that the use of enhanced counseling can play an important role in decision making about risk reduction behaviors following BRCA1/2 testing...

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..The findings suggest that it may be important to evaluate the impact of cognitive and behavioral avoidance on progression of precancerous cervical lesions...

..The purpose of this study was to examine sociodemographic and psychosocial correlates of intention to undergo prophylactic oophorectomy among women with a family history of ovarian cancer...

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..We examined reasons patients provide for declining smoking treatment and compared treatment decliners to enrollees...

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..These findings can help guide the development of smoking cessation interventions for cancer patients...

..Modifiable cancer risk factors can be identified in the majority of workers. Inaccurate risk perception is an important target for future interventions...

..To pilot a worksite smoking intervention...

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..continuous smokers exhibited a significantly lower level of risk perceptions than continuous abstainers. These findings can be useful for the development and evaluation of treatments to promote smoking cessation among cancer patients...

..These strategies are discussed within the context of models and guidelines for smoking cessation in clinical practice...

..Little is known about the difference between the concerns of men and women prior to undergoing diagnostic tests for cancer...

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