Personality and choice of coping predict quality of life in head and neck cancer patients during follow-up

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 879-890

  Aarstad, Anne K H ^a,b   Aarstad, Hans J ^a,b   Olofsson, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COPING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 45849145834     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860701798858     Document Type: Article

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