Assessing anxiety in men with prostate cancer: Further data on the reliability and validity of the Memorial Anxiety Scale for Prostate Cancer (MAX-PC)

Psychosomatics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 340-347

  Roth, Andrew ^b   Nelson, Christian J ^a   Rosenfeld, Barry ^b   Warshowski, Adam ^b   O'Shea, Noelle ^b   Scher, Howard ^b   Holland, Jimmie C ^b   Slovin, Susan ^b   Curley Smart, Tracy ^b   Reynolds, Thomas ^b   Breitbart, William ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; ANXIETY DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33747097565     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.47.4.340     Document Type: Article

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