The counselees' self-reported request for psychological help in genetic counseling for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer: Not only psychopathology matters

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 902-910

  Vos, Joël ^a   Van Asperen, Christi J ^a   Oosterwijk, Jan C ^b   Menko, Fred H ^c   Collee, Margriet J ^d   Garcia, Encarna Gomez ^e   Tibben, Aad ^f  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cancer; distress; genetic counseling; psychosocial needs; screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEREDITARY BREAST AND OVARIAN CANCER SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84876040668     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3081     Document Type: Article

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