Standardization of the Korean version of mini-mental adjustment to cancer (K-Mini-MAC) scale: Factor structure, reliability and validity

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 592-597

  Kang, Jee In ^a   Chung, Hyun Cheol ^a,b   Kim, Se Joo ^a   Choi, Hye Jin ^a,b   Ahn, Joong Bae ^a,b   Jeung, Hei Cheul ^a,b   Namkoong, Kee ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cancer; Coping; Mental adjustment; Mini MAC; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HOPELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MINI MENTAL ADJUSTMENT TO CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICK ROLE; TRANSLATING;

EID: 48249115992     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1277     Document Type: Article

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