Interactive patterns of social support and individual coping strategies in melanoma patients and their correlations with adjustment to illness

Psychosomatics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 239-250

  Söllner, Wolfgang ^a   Zschocke, Ina ^b   Zingg Schir, Martina ^b   Stein, Barbara ^b   Rumpold, Gerhard ^b   Fritsch, Peter ^b   Augustin, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PREDICTION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0032954898     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(99)71241-7     Document Type: Article

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