Reliance on God's help, depression and fatigue in female cancer patients

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-372

  Büssing, Arndt ^a,b   Fischer, Julia ^a   Ostermann, Thomas ^a   Matthiessen, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Department of Medical Theory and Complementary Medicine ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Depression; Fatigue; Quality of life; Religion and medicine; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELIGION; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EXISTENTIALISM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERMANY, EAST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 57749169771     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.38.3.j     Document Type: Article

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