Need for cognition and psychosocial adjustment in prostate cancer patients and partners

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-19

  Oh, Sindy ^a   Meyerowitz, Beth E ^a   Perez, Martin A ^b   Thornton, Andrea A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Communication; Need for cognition; Partners; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 34247248261     PISSN: 07347332     EISSN: 15407586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J077v25n01_01     Document Type: Article

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