Who needs the concept of 'spirituality'?

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 647-649

  Salander, Pär ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33746297860     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1060     Document Type: Letter

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