Awareness of diagnosis and psychiatric morbidity among cancer patients - A study from South India

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-261

  Chandra, Prabha S ^a   Chaturvedi, Santosh K ^a   Kumar, Anil ^a   Kumar, Sateesh ^a   Subbakrishna, D K ^a   Channabasavanna, S M ^a   Anantha, N ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b KIDWAI MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Awareness; Cancer; Denial; Psychiatric morbidity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MOUTH CANCER; RELATIVE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AWARENESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032170422     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(98)00012-9     Document Type: Article

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