Health-related quality of life and the predictive role of sense of coherence, spirituality and religious coping in a sample of Iranian women with breast cancer: A prospective study with comparative design

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Rohani, Camelia ^a   Abedi, Heidar Ali ^b   Omranipour, Ramesh ^c   Langius Eklöf, Ann ^d  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Health related quality of life; Religious coping; Sense of coherence; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BREAST CANCER; BRIEF RELIGIOUS COPING SCALE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOUSEWIFE; HUMAN; IRANIAN PEOPLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED PERSON; MASTECTOMY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SENSE OF COHERENCE SCALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE SCALE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SPIRITUALITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84927135243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-015-0229-1     Document Type: Article

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