Is psychological distress in people living with cancer related to the fact of diagnosis, current treatment or level of disability? Findings from a large Australian study

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 193, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Banks, Emily ^a   Byles, Julie E ^b   Gibson, Richard E ^b   Rodgers, Bryan ^c   Latz, Isabel K ^a   Robinson, Ian A ^b   Williamson, Anna B ^d   Jorm, Louisa R ^d,e  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79956308836     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03931.x     Document Type: Article

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