The Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale: A psychometric analysis in Spanish cancer patients

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 984-991

  Costa Requena, Gema ^a   Gil, Francisco ^a  

^a Duran i Reynals Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Coping response; Factorial structure; MAC scale; Spanish version

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL ADJUSTMENT TO CANCER SCALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANXIETY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CARE; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 70449365866     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1466     Document Type: Article

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