Internet-based program for coping with cancer: A randomized controlled trial with hematologic cancer patients

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1064-1072

  David, N ^a   Schlenker, P ^a   Prudlo, U ^a   Larbig, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; Hematologic cancer; Internet; Oncology; Randomized controlled trial; Web based treatment

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL STRESS MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOPELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ETIOLOGY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877267802     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3104     Document Type: Article

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