Reliability and validity of a new scale on internal coherence (ICS) of cancer patients

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kröz, Matthias ^a   Büssing, Arndt ^b   von Laue, Hans Broder ^c   Reif, Marcus ^d   Feder, Gene ^e   Schad, Friedemann ^a   Girke, Matthias ^a   Matthes, Harald ^a  

^a Research Institute Havelhöhe FIH Havelhöhe Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c Institute for Clinical Research ^*  (Germany)

^d Institute for Clinical Research (IKF)   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; OXALIPLATIN; TACROLIMUS; VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; B CELL LEUKEMIA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLON CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PLASMACYTOMA; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RELIABILITY; SOLID TUMOR; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THYMUS CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; TONSIL CARCINOMA; URETHRA CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VALIDATION STUDY; GERMANY; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 67749106607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-7-59     Document Type: Article

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