Coping, life attitudes, and immune responses to imagery and group support after breast cancer treatment

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 62-70

  Richardson, Mary Ann ^a   Post White, Janice ^b   Grimm, Elizabeth A ^c   Moye, Lemuel A ^a   Singletary, S Eva ^c   Justice, Blair ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); IMMUNE SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0031225223     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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