Religious belief as a coping strategy: An explorative trial in patients irradiated for head-and-neck cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 270-276

  Becker, Gerhild ^a   Momm, Felix ^a   Xander, Carola ^a   Bartelt, Susanne ^a   Zander Heinz, Anja ^b   Budischewski, Kai ^b   Domin, Claudia ^b   Henke, Michael ^a   Adamietz, Irenäus A ^c   Frommhold, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; Head and neck cancer; Religious belief; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION INJURY; RELIGION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAIN; PLACEBOS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SPIRITUALITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646559525     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1533-9     Document Type: Article

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