The impact of optimism on anxiety, depression and quality of life in urogenital cancer patients

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 879-886

  Zenger, Markus ^a   Brix, Christina ^b   Borowski, Johannes ^a   Stolzenburg, Jens Uwe ^a   Hinz, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cancer; Depression; Oncology; Optimism; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DEPRESSION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIMISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PESSIMISM; PREDICTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77955142299     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1635     Document Type: Article

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