Parents of healthy children assign lower quality of life measure to scenarios labeled as cancer than to identical scenarios not labeled as cancer

Parents of healthy children assign lower quality of life measure to scenarios labeled as cancer than to identical scenarios not labeled as cancer

Abstract Background While it is commonly understood that a cancer diagnosis evokes feelings of fear, the effect of labeling a child’s illness as “cancer” remains unstudied. We hypothesized that lower health utility scores would be assigned to disease states labeled as cancer compared to identical di...

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Main Authors: Brenna M. McElderry, Emily L. Mueller, Abigail Garcia, Aaron E. Carroll, William E. Bennett Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:BMC Psychology
Subjects:
Cancer
Childhood
Health utility
Quality of life
Decision making
Bias
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40359-019-0280-5

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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40359-019-0280-5

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