Gender differences in psychosocial responses to lung cancer

Gender Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-148

  Jacobs Lawson, Joy M ^a   Schumacher, Mitzi M ^b   Hughes, Travonia ^c   Arnold, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; lung cancer; psychosocial; religion; spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE SATISFACTION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH SERVICE; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEN; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN;

EID: 77954945631     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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