Social-cognitive correlates of adjustment to prostate cancer

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 183-192

  Roberts, Katherine J ^a   Lepore, Stephen J ^a   Helgeson, Vicki ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitively processing; Prostate cancer; Quality of life; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; COGNITION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33645634595     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.934     Document Type: Article

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