Health-related quality of life and needs of care and support of adult Tanzanians with cancer: A mixed-methods study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Masika, Golden M ^a,b   Wettergren, Lena ^c   Kohi, Thecla W ^d   von Essen, Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA   (Tanzania)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Cancer; Care; Health related quality of life; Support; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COGNITION; COLORECTAL CANCER; EMOTIONALITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EYE CANCER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEOPLASM; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TANZANIA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; HEALTH STATUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868226526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-133     Document Type: Article

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