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Social support buffers both negative physical and psychological outcomes.
2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Social support buffers both negative physical and psychological outcomes.
According to a study from the United States, "Concerns about psychological distress have arisen regarding genetic testing for susceptibility to late-onset diseases such as breast and/or ovarian cancer.
"Early results do not show large-scale psychological distress among those tested; therefore, research is now focusing on identifying subgroups that may be at risk for negative outcomes," wrote J.E. Wylie and colleagues, University of Utah School of Medicine.
"Social support has been shown to buffer both negative physical and psychological outcomes in health research. The role of spouses as part of the tested person's social support system is shown to be significant in a sample of 57 BRCA1 mutation carriers," the researchers stated.
"Separately, the tested person's perception of his/her spouse's anxiety and his/her perception of the spouse's support at the time of testing are predictive of the tested person's psychological distress up to 2 years after testing," the researchers wrote.
"The interaction of the two variables is even more predictive. For those tested who perceived their spouse to be both anxious and nonsupportive at the time of testing, distress levels reached ...
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