Lower levels of trust in one's physician is associated with more distress over time in more anxiously attached individuals with cancer

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 382-387

  Hinnen, Chris ^a,b   Pool, Grieteke ^b   Holwerda, Nynke ^b   Sprangers, Mirjam ^c   Sanderman, Robbert ^b,d   Hagedoorn, Mariet ^b  

^a SLOTERVAART HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attachment; Cancer; Emotional distress; Patient physician trust; Physical functioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRUST; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGED; INDIVIDUALITY; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRUST;

EID: 84902778182     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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