Coping with illness and subjective theories of illness in adult patients with haematological malignancies: Systematic review

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-257

  Koehler, Michael ^a   Koenigsmann, Michael ^a   Frommer, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; Doctor patient relationship; Haematological malignancies; Psychosocial support; Subjective theories of illness

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERFERON; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA BASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EWING SARCOMA; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PROCESS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEORY CONSTRUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 63749096702     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2008.09.014     Document Type: Review

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