Prevalence, correlates, and costs of patients with poor adjustment to mixed cancers

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-16

  Butler, Lorna ^a,d,f   Downe Wamboldt, Barbara ^a   Melanson, Patricia ^a   Coulter, Lynn ^d   Keefe, Janice ^e   Singleton, Jerome ^b   Bell, David ^c,d  

^a Dalhousie School of Nursing   (Canada)

^b Sch of Health and Human Performance   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Coping; Costs; Depression; Mixed cancers; Psychosocial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LITERATURE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; LUNG TUMOR; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIRECT SERVICE COSTS; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NOVA SCOTIA; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33646097229     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200601000-00002     Document Type: Article

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