The Distress Thermometer as an ultra-short screening tool: A first validation study for mixed-cancer outpatients in Singapore

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1055-1062

  Lim, Haikel A ^a   Mahendran, Rathi ^a,b   Chua, Joanne ^b   Peh, Chao Xu ^a   Lim, Siew Eng ^a   Kua, Ee Heok ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS THERMOMETER; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NERVOUSNESS; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT WORRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SADNESS; SCREENING TEST; SINGAPORE; SLEEP DISORDER; VALIDATION STUDY; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMPLICATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTPATIENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGAPORE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84898770355     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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