Psychosocial difficulties, deprivation and cancer: Three questionnaire studies involving 609 cancer patients

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 622-626

  Wright, P ^a   Smith, A ^a   Booth, L ^a   Winterbottom, A ^a   Kiely, M ^a   Velikova, G ^a   Selby, P ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Psychological distress; Social difficulties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE SIZE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 27144521632     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602777     Document Type: Article

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