Need for supportive counselling - The professionals' versus the patients' perspective. A survey in a representative sample of 236 melanoma patients

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 94-104

  Söllner, Wolfgang ^a   Zingg Schir, Martina ^a   Rumpold, Gerhard ^a   Mairinger, Gerlinde ^a   Fritsch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coping with illness; Melanoma; Psychosocial distress; Psychotherapy; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MELANOMA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 2642647828     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000012266     Document Type: Article

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