Risk perception, treatment adherence, and personality during COVID-19 pandemic: An international study on cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the role of personality traits in moderating the relation between COVID-19 risk perception and treatment adherence, and between risk perception and psychosocial distress in patients diagnosed with cancer.

Methods

An online survey (n = 1281) was conducted worldwide in seven countries (Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey). Inclusion criteria were to be 18 years of age or older, have received a cancer diagnosis, and be in treatment or follow-up. A few moderated regression models were performed with both personality traits and Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology super-spectra as moderators.

Results

Detachment, negative affectivity, psychoticism and all the super-spectra significantly moderated the relation between corona

SUBMITTER: Cheli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420575 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature