Similarly, a separate series of studies conducted over a two-year period indicated that asking participants to consider what kind of legacy they hoped to leave behind caused an increase in what the researchers call "helping behaviour", especially regarding environmental causes.
Additionally, divergent prior assumptions and desired/expected outcomes regarding environmental causes of breast cancer have also led to advocate frustration.
For advocates, particularly advocates who have had breast cancer, there is a strong sense of certainty as well as urgency regarding environmental causes of breast cancer.
The survey results and the interviews further demonstrate that the lack of understanding or training in CBPR was exacerbated by divergent assumptions and desired outcomes regarding environmental causes of breast cancer.
The interviews highlighted the fact that the lack of understanding of or training in CBPR and divergent assumptions and desired outcomes regarding environmental causes of breast cancer were not consistent across the BCERCs.
Such issues include differences in attitudes and perceptions between advocates and scientists regarding inquiry paradigms and differences in concerns about and desired outcomes regarding environmental causes of breast cancer.
