Individual differences in cancer patients' willingness to use complementary and alternative medicine

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 855-860

  Agnieszka, Olchowska Katala ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Cognitive preferences; Complementary and alternative medicine; Paranormal beliefs; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONALITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84894128075     PISSN: 18995276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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