Post-traumatic growth in advanced cancer patients receiving palliative care

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 633-646

  Mystakidou, Kyriaki ^a,b   Tsilika, Eleni ^a   Parpa, Efi ^a   Galanos, Antonis ^a   Vlahos, Lambros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH INVENTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VALIDITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSLATING;

EID: 56649089703     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135910707X246177     Document Type: Article

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