Religious and other predictors of psychosocial adjustment in cancer patients

Psychosomatics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-256

  Rifkin, Arthur ^a   Doddi, Seshegiri ^b   Karagji, Basawaraj ^b   Pollack, Simcha ^b  

^a ZUCKER HILLSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032956597     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(99)71242-9     Document Type: Article

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