The role of religion and spirituality in psychological distress prior to surgery for urologic cancer

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 212-220

  Biegler, Kelly ^a   Cohen, Lorenzo ^b   Scott, Shellie ^b   Hitzhusen, Katherine ^c   Parker, Patricia ^b   Gilts, Chelsea D ^d   Canada, Andrea ^e   Pisters, Louis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; distress; oncology; religion; spirituality; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BLADDER CANCER; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870418852     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735411416456     Document Type: Article

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