The religiousness as a way of coping with anxiety in women with breast cancer at different disease stages

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1361-1366

  Janiszewska, Justyna ^a   Buss, Tomasz ^a   De Walden Gałuszko, Krystyna ^b   Majkowicz, Mikołaj ^a   Lichodziejewska Niemierko, Monika ^a   Modlińska, Aleksandra ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b Baltic Higher School of Humanities   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Breast cancer; Coping; Religiousness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION;

EID: 55549112583     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-008-0437-x     Document Type: Article

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