A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effects of a self-help workbook intervention on distress, coping and quality of life after breast cancer diagnosis

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 193, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Beatty, Lisa J ^a,b   Koczwara, Bogda ^b   Rice, Janet ^b   Wade, Tracey D ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79956325112     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03932.x     Document Type: Article

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