Predictors of existential and religious well-being among cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1931-1937

  Mazzotti, Eva ^a   Mazzuca, Federica ^b   Sebastiani, Claudia ^a   Scoppola, Alessandro ^a   Marchetti, Paolo ^a,b  

^a LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cancer; Coping strategies; Existential wellbeing; Quality of life; Religious wellbeing; Spiritual wellbeing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXISTENTIAL WELLBEING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGIOUS WELLBEING; RISK FACTOR; SPIRITUAL WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83555160919     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-010-1033-4     Document Type: Article

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