Religious/spiritual coping resources and their relationship with adjustment in patients newly diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 646-658

  Thuné Boyle, Ingela C V ^a,c   Stygall, Jan ^a,b   Keshtgar, Mohammed R S ^d   Davidson, Tim I ^d   Newman, Stanton P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; cancer; depression; oncology; religious coping; spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENIAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIMISM; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 84874675591     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3048     Document Type: Article

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