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Date:5/5/2008

ersity Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, presented findings that patients at high risk for melanoma benefited when a partner was involved in their skin self-exams. Specifically, the patients who were assisted by a partner in performing skin self-exams were more likely to follow a regular detection routine than those who relied solely on themselves for motivation.

Study participants included 130 patients with a history of melanoma who were randomly assigned to either a solo-learning control group or a partner-learning group. Partners were either a spouse of the participant or a person living in the same household as the participant for at least one year prior to the study.

"Our data showed that having a partner assist in skin self-exams led to significantly more positive attitudes toward the importance of skin self-exams, higher reports of self-efficacy or confidence in the ability to perform the exams and more comfort with someone helping to examine their skin compared with those in the solo-learning group," explained Dr. Robinson.

Dr. Robinson's extension of the research about this study group sought to identify if the quality of the relationship with the partner assisting in the skin self-exams would impact the patient's likeliness of performing them. The article entitled "Relationship and partner moderator variables increase self-efficacy of performing skin self-examination," published in the May 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, examined relationship variables that included the quality of the relationship, the partner's motivation, and the partner's ability to provide support and assist in implementing the outlined skin self-exams.

"We concluded that when the quality of the partner or marital relationship was high, the beneficial effects provided by the partner being included in the skin self-exams skills training were the highest -- with patients demonstrating a higher degree of self-efficacy in
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