Beliefs about medicine and illness are associated with fear of cancer recurrence in women taking adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 168-181

  Corter, Arden L ^a   Findlay, Michael ^a   Broom, Reuben ^b   Porter, David ^b   Petrie, Keith J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; PHARMACEUTICAL VEHICLES AND ADDITIVES;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUVANTS, PHARMACEUTIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872393427     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: 20448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjhp.12003     Document Type: Article

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