Facing the Emotional Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening. The Roles of Reappraisal and Situation Selection.

Background: Disgust, embarrassment, and fear can hinder the attendance of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. However, individuals can respond to these emotions differently. The present study tested whether reappraising a negative stimulus versus avoiding a negative stimulus is associated with age; whether these two emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and situation selection) moderate the effects of disgust, embarrassment and fear on CRC screening intention; and the efficacy of a message based on participants' preferred emotion regulation strategy.

Didactic and narrative persuasion: An experiment to promote colorectal cancer screening.

We tested whether a didactic and a narrative video (i.e. educational content and personal stories versus irrelevant information) could boost colorectal cancer (CRC) screening intention directly and through cognitive predictors of CRC screening behavior.

Psychosocial Predictors of Colorectal Cancer Screening Intention: An Experiment on the Invitation Letter.

Background: In Italy, attendance rates for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening are suboptimal. The present work analysed cognitive and emotional predictors of CRC screening intention and tested an intervention on a real invitation letter to improve CRC screening intention, both directly and in interaction with the predictors of our model.

Methods: Our model included variables from the theory of planned behaviour and the emotional barriers to bowel screening scale.

The role of disgust as an emotional barrier to colorectal cancer screening participation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: Worldwide colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are suboptimal. This systematic review and meta-analysis examine the role of disgust in CRC screening avoidance.

Design: A systematic literature search was conducted.

Emotional Barriers to Bowel Screening in Italy: Scale psychometric properties and effects on screening attendance.

Objective: To assess a three-factor version of the Emotional Barriers to Bowel Screening (EBBS) scale; analyze the scale's psychometric properties; and investigate the associations of fecal disgust, embarrassment, and fear with colorectal cancer (CRC) screening avoidance.

Methods: Retrospective design: We asked participants to rate negative emotions associated with CRC screenings as well as whether they had ever attended a fecal occult blood test.

Sample: 268 Italian adults aged 45-74 years.

Thromboelastographic changes in liver and pancreatic cancer surgery: hypercoagulability, hypocoagulability or normocoagulability?

Background And Objective: Despite clinical and laboratory evidence of perioperative hypercoagulability, alterations in haemostasis after potentially haemorrhagic oncologic surgery are difficult to predict. This study aims to evaluate the entity, the extent and the duration of perioperative coagulative alterations following pancreas and liver oncologic surgery, by the use of both routine tests and thromboelastogram (TEG).

Methods: Fifty-six patients undergoing liver (n = 38) and pancreatic (n = 18) surgery were studied.