Hopelessness and related variables among cancer patients in the Southern European Psycho-Oncology Study (SEPOS)

Psychosomatics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-207

  Grassi, Luigi ^a   Travado, Luzia ^a   Gil, Francisco ^a   Sabato, Silvana ^a   Rossi, Elena ^a   Tomamichel, Michele ^a   Marmai, Luciana ^a   Biancosino, Bruno ^a   Nanni, Maria Giulia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTUGAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN; SWITZERLAND; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLBEING; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 77953051984     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.51.3.201     Document Type: Article

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