Factors related to patient's mental adjustment to breast cancer: Patient characteristics and family functioning

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 178-184

  Inoue, Shinichi ^a   Saeki, Toshinari ^a   Mantani, Tomoyuki ^a   Okamura, Hitoshi ^b   Yamawaki, Shigeto ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Coping response; Family functioning; Multiple regression analysis; Spouses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MARRIAGE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPOUSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0038206600     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-002-0417-5     Document Type: Article

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