Trait anxiety as an independent predictor of poor health-related quality of life and post-traumatic stress symptoms in rectal cancer

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 701-715

  Ristvedt, Stephen L ^a   Trinkaus, Kathryn M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CHARACTER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLOSTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TEMPERAMENT; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 72849130807     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135910708X400462     Document Type: Article

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