Using the impact of event scale to evaluate distress in the context of genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility

Psychological Reports

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 873-881

  Dorval, Michel ^a,d   Drolet, Mélanie ^b   Leblanc, Mélanie ^a   Maunsell, Elizabeth ^a   Dugas, Michel J ^c   Simard, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Centre de Recherche du CHAUQ   (Canada)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33748875858     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.98.3.873-881     Document Type: Article

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