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Participants were a priori classified in "not worried" and "worried" using the median as cut-off.
Some patients described themselves as only mildly worried, using phrases such as "I just wanted to make sure"(Pt1) or "I just wanted reassurance" (Pt14), but most of the patients described themselves as moderately or extremely concerned on at least one occasion in the recent past.
Seventeen participants had to be excluded on this basis (2 participants indicated that they had not worried using verbal processing, and 15 indicated that they had not worried in imagery, despite being requested to do so) during the five-minute worry phase.
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The questionnaire measured risk perception, knowledge about familial cancer and cancer worry using disease-specific measures.
This is the first study to demonstrate that worrying using imagery is associated with a decrease in negative intrusions.
Instructions to worry verbally (as is usual in worry) resulted in an increase in reported negative thought intrusions during the subsequent breathing-focused phase, while instructions to worry using imagery led to a decrease.
If it actually is worrying, use "disturbing".
So don't worry, use them wherever necessary.
A descriptive, exploratory, quantitative design was used to explore student worry using the Pediatric Student Comfort and Worry Assessment Tool.
In the present study, we induced worry states in participants reporting typical non-clinical levels of trait worry using a protocol that has been reliably used to induce worry in anxious and non-anxious individuals [17], [25] [27].
In our study we operationalized mental health along two dimensions: emotional well-being (depressed mood) and pregnancy-related worries, using validated questionnaires.
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