Use of complementary and alternative medicine by cancer patients is not associated with perceived distress or poor compliance with standard treatment but with active coping behavior: A survey

Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 873-880

  Söllner, Wolfgang ^a,b   Maislinger, Susanne ^a   DeVries, Alexander ^a   Steixner, Eva ^a   Rumpold, Gerhard ^a   Lukas, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Cancer; Complementary therapies; Compliance with treatment; Coping with illness; Radiotherapy; Supportive care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 0034663038     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20000815)89:4<873::AID-CNCR21>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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