Reliability and validity of the brief COPE scale (english version) among women with breast cancer undergoing treatment of adjuvant chemotherapy: A Malaysian study

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-44

  Yusoff, Nasir ^a   Low, W Y ^b   Yip, C H ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Brief COPE scale; Internal consistency; Test retest reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRIEF COPE SCALE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALAYSIA; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RATING SCALE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77958024572     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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