Complementary and alternative medicine use of women with breast cancer: Self-help CAM attracts other women than guided CAM therapies

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 529-536

  Lo Fo Wong, Deborah N N ^a   Ranchor, Adelita V ^b   de Haes, Hanneke C J M ^a   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^a   Henselmans, Inge ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Complementary and alternative medicine; Health care use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSAGE; OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROVIDER DIRECTED ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELAXATION TRAINING; RELIGION; SELF DIRECTED ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; SELF REPORT; THERAPY USE STABILITY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84870301194     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.02.019     Document Type: Article

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