Psychological adjustment to gynaecological cancer: Patients' illness representations, coping strategies and mood disturbance

Psychology and Health

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 633-646

  Gould, Rachel V ^a   Brown, Stephen L ^b   Bramwell, Ros ^c  

^a Staffordshire   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping; Gynaecological cancer; Illness representations; Self regulation model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICK ROLE;

EID: 77953365020     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870440902811163     Document Type: Article

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