Turning the tide: Benefit finding after cancer surgery

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 653-662

  Schulz, Ute ^a   Mohamed, Nihal E ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benefit; Cancer; Germany; Self efficacy; Social support; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH SERVICES; PERCEPTION;

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CONVALESCENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATH ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 2442501166     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.11.019     Document Type: Article

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