Coping strategies of women with breast cancer: A comparison of patients with healthy and benign controls

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-52

  Anagnostopoulos, Fotios ^a   Vaslamatzis, Gregoris ^b   Markidis, Marios ^b  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast diseases; Coping; Self blame

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GUILT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0348014539     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074439     Document Type: Article

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