Perceptions of coping behaviors by persons with cancer and health care providers

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 197-203

  Merluzzi, Thomas V ^a   Sanchez, Mary Ann Martinez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SICK ROLE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030820325     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1611(199709)6:3<197::AID-PON270>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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