Existential well-being is an important determinant of quality of life: Evidence from the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 576-586

  Cohen, S Robin ^a,b,c   Mount, Balfour M ^a   Tomas, Jon J N ^a   Mount, Lauren F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Institut national du cancer du Canada   (Canada)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

cancer; existential; measurement; psychosocial; quality of life; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030066559     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960201)77:3<576::AID-CNCR22>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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