Patient perception of disease control and psychological distress
Author(s) -
Eva Mazzotti,
Claudia Sebastiani,
Paolo Marchetti
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cancer management and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 40
ISSN - 1179-1322
DOI - 10.2147/cmar.s35060
Subject(s) - medicine , anxiety , hospital anxiety and depression scale , psychosocial , quality of life (healthcare) , affect (linguistics) , confounding , depression (economics) , disease , marital status , distress , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychology , population , nursing , environmental health , communication , economics , macroeconomics
Risk perception and efficacy beliefs affect health behavior. The aim of this study was to measure cancer severity and curability (as proxy for risk perception and efficacy beliefs, respectively) and their association with clinical and psychosocial variables.
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