Identification and Prediction of Distress Trajectories in the First Year After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Health Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-168

  Henselmans, Inge ^a   Helgeson, Vicki S ^b   Seltman, Howard ^b   de Vries, Jakob ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Ranchor, Adelita V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; personal control; psychological adjustment; psychological distress; trajectories

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 77949603743     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017806     Document Type: Article

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