Psychological comorbidity and health-related quality of life and its association with awareness, utilization, and need for psychosocial support in a cancer register-based sample of long-term breast cancer survivors

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 383-391

  Mehnert, Anja ^a   Koch, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Long term breast cancer survivors; Psychosocial distress; Psychosocial support; PTSD; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER REHABILITATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHECKLIST; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AWARENESS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 40949090020     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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