The impact of a multimedia informational intervention on psychosocial adjustment among individuals with newly diagnosed breast or prostate cancer: A feasibility study

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-55

  Loiselle, Carmen G ^a,b   Edgar, Linda ^a   Batist, Gerald ^c,d   Lu, Ji ^e   Lauzier, Sophie ^a,f  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast and prostate cancer; Health information technology; Multimedia information technology; Patient education; Psychosocial oncology; Quality of life; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIMEDIA; OPTIMISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTROL GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMEDIA; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953540131     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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