Posttraumatic stress disorder after cancer diagnosis in adults: A meta-analysis

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 327-339

  Swartzman, Samantha ^a   Booth, Josephine N ^a   Munro, Alastair ^b   Sani, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epidemiology; meta analysis; neoplasms; posttraumatic; review; stress disorders; systematic

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-5; DSM-IV; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; ICD-10; PEER REVIEW; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84979600132     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.22542     Document Type: Review

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