Cancer attributions, distress, and health practices among gynecologic cancer survivors

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 972-980

  Costanzo, Erin S ^a   Lutgendorf, Susan K ^a,c   Bradley, Sarah L ^a   Rose, Stephen L ^b   Anderson, Barrie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributions; Cancer survivors; Cervical cancer; Distress; Endometrial cancer; Health practices

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEPRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SCREENING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33645651417     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000188402.95398.c0     Document Type: Article

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