A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Demoralization and Depression in Patients With Cancer

Psychosomatics

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 634-643

  Tang, Pei Ling ^a,b   Wang, Hsiu Hung ^a,b   Chou, Fan Hao ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER PATIENT; DEMORALIZATION; DEMORALIZATION SCALE MANDARIN VERSION; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; GERMANY; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; NEWCASTLE OTTAWA SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMFORT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLICATION; MENTAL STRESS; META ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYNDROME;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GERMANY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SYNDROME; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955209292     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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