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Expression of Concern: Interaction of psychosocial and physical risk factors in the causation of mammary cancer, and its prevention through psychological methods of treatment
Author(s) -
GrossarthMaticek R.,
Eysenck; H. J.,
Boyle G. J.,
Heeb J.,
Costa S. D.,
Diel I. J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(200001)56:1<33::aid-jclp4>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - psychosocial , psychology , clinical psychology , intervention (counseling) , risk factor , autonomy , psychotherapist , medicine , psychiatry , political science , law
Some 8059 healthy women (mean age 58 years) were studied in 1973 with the aim of establishing the presence or absence of a variety of physical and psychological risk factors for mammary cancer. Mortality was established in 1988,15 years later. Both physical and psychological risk‐factor predictors were highly significant. Physical risk factors were more predictive than psychological ones, but both interacted synergistically to predict mortality. Alone, psychological (stress) factors had little effect, whilephysical factors did. However, psychological factors seemed to potentiate the effect of physical factors, particularly in the middle range. The causal relevance of psychological factors was established in a special intervention study using autonomy training as a method of prophylactic therapy and comparing outcome with the effects of no therapy (control). © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 56: 33–50, 2000.