The psychosocial impact of stigma in people with head and neck or lung cancer

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 140-152

  Lebel, Sophie ^a   Castonguay, Myriam ^b   MacKness, Gudrun ^a   Irish, Jonathan ^c,d   Bezjak, Andrea ^c,d   Devins, Gerald M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

benefit finding; cancer; disfigurement; gender; illness intrusiveness; self blame; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; DEFORMITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BELIEF; STIGMA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BODY IMAGE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84872063017     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.2063     Document Type: Article

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