Factors related to use of the Internet as a source of health information by urological cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3087-3094

  Valero Aguilera, Beatriz ^a   Bermúdez Tamayo, Clara ^a,b,c   García Gutiérrez, José Francisco ^b,c   Jiménez Pernett, Jaime ^b   Vázquez Alonso, Fernando ^a   Suárez Charneco, Armando ^a   Guerrero Tejada, Rosario ^a   Cózar Olmo, José Manuel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^b ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Information needs; Internet; Patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN; SUPPORT GROUP; URBAN POPULATION; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN; URBAN POPULATION; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84868471258     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1431-x     Document Type: Review

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