Mediating effects of patients’ stigma and self-efficacy on relationships between doctors’ empathy abilities and patients’ cellular immunity in male breast cancer patients

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 24, Issue , 2018, Pages 3978-3986

  Yang, Ningxi ^a,b   Cao, Yingnan ^c   Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Li, Shiyue ^a   Yan, Hong ^a   Geng, Qingshan ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c Beijing Jishuitan Hospital   (China)

^d GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms, male; Empathy; Immunity, cellular; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE BREAST CANCER; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STIGMA; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CHINA; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CHINA; COMMUNICATION; EMPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85048729594     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.910794     Document Type: Article

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