The psychological impact of being offered surveillance colonoscopy following attendance at colorectal screening using flexible sigmoidoscopy

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 124-130

  Miles, Anne ^a   Atkin, Wendy S ^b   Kralj Hans, Ines ^b   Wardle, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER RISK; COLONOSCOPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE SIGMOIDOSCOPY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; INTESTINE POLYP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349948829     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2009.009041     Document Type: Article

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