Worry is a normal response to uncertainty. Education, empathetic support, reassurance, and passage of time usually ameliorate ordinary worries. However, these common-sense strategies for dealing with transient worries often prove ineffective for patients with excessive worry, many of whom meet the criteria for disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed. Evide...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate symptom-based cancer worry in women who are at hereditary risk for breast cancer, specifically levels of worry, correlations of cancer worry, perceived cancer risk, and clinical signs or symptoms of breast cancer, as well as predictors of cancer worry. DESIGN Cross-sectional, correlational. SETTING Primarily the United States. SAMPLE 200 women, aged 18-80...

worrier home, sits with him at table, accompanies him on his travels, and exhibits him in all his familiar unattractiveness. In his chapter on obsessions he points out their presence in childhood, and their persistence under different forms in many adults. An amusing instance quoted is that of "a boy who had to touch everyone wearing anything red. On one occasion his whole family lost their tra...

Excessive and uncontrollable worry is a defining feature of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). An important endeavor in the treatment of pathological worry is to understand why some people are unable to stop worrying once they have started. Worry perseveration is associated with a tendency to deploy goal-directed worry rules (known as "as many as can" worry rules; AMA). These require attention...

Worry about breast cancer risk has been found to be a barrier to mammography use by women with a family history of breast cancer in some studies, although worry is generally found to increase mammography use among average risk women. Our study sought to examine the association of worry with mammography use in a population-based sample of women stratified by family history associated risk for br...

BACKGROUND Telephone triage is used to assess acute illness or injury. Clinical decision making is often assisted by triage tools that lack callers' perspectives. This study analysed callers' perception of urgency, defined as degree of worry in acute care telephone calls. AIM To explore the caller's ability to quantify their degree of worry, the association between degree of worry and variabl...

objective: attention is an important factor in information processing; obsessive- compulsive disorder (ocd) and generalized anxiety disorder (gad) are two main emotional disorders with a chronic course. this research examined the relationship among attentional control and intrusive thoughts (worry, rumination and obsession) in these disorders. it was hypothesized that attentional control is a c...

BACKGROUND Worry about recurrence (worry) is a persistent concern of breast cancer survivors. Little is known about whether race/ethnicity or healthcare experiences are associated with worry. METHODS Women with nonmetastatic breast cancer diagnosed from June 2005 to February 2007 and reported to Detroit or Los Angeles Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registries were surveyed (mean ...

This preliminary study examined the nature of worry content of lesbians, gay men, and bisexual individuals and the relationship between worry related to sexual orientation and mental health. A community sample of 54 individuals identifying as sexual minorities was recruited from two cities in the Great Plains to complete a packet of questionnaires, including a modified Worry Domains Questionnai...