Associations with worry about dying and hopelessness in ambulatory ovarian cancer patients

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 299-306

  Shinn, Eileen Huh ^a   Taylor, Cindy L Carmack ^a   Kilgore, Kelly ^a   Valentine, Alan ^a   Bodurka, Diane C ^a   Kavanagh, John ^a   Sood, Anil ^a   Li, Yisheng ^a   Basen Engquist, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment disorder; Attitude to death; Depression; Ovarian neoplasms; Patient care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CANCER STAGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OVARY TUMOR; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449089486     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951509990228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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