Adopting a family approach to theory and practice: Measuring distress in cancer patient-partner dyads with the distress thermometer

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 394-403

  Zwahlen, Diana ^a,b   Hagenbuch, Niels ^a   Jenewein, Josef ^a   Carley, Margaret I ^c   Buchi, Stefan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Private Practice   (Australia)

^d Clinic for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 'Hohenegg'   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cancer; couples; distress; family; oncology

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DISTRESS THERMOMETER; FAMILY STRESS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTESTINE CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYELOMA; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROLE STRESS; TESTIS CANCER; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953018033     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1744     Document Type: Article

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