Type D personality is associated with increased comorbidity burden and health care utilization among 3080 cancer survivors

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 352-359

  Mols, Floortje ^a,b   Oerlemans, Simone ^a,b   Denollet, Johan ^a   Roukema, Jan Anne ^a,c   van de Poll Franse, Lonneke V ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b The Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^c CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Comorbidity; Health care utilization; Type D personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF ADMINISTERED COMORBIDITY QUESTIONNAIRE; TYPE D PERSONALITY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84862771509     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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