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Adjustment of married couples and unmarried women to gynaecological cancer
Author(s) -
Gilbar Ora,
Steiner Mariana,
Atad Jack
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
psycho‐oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.41
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1099-1611
pISSN - 1057-9249
DOI - 10.1002/pon.2960040306
Subject(s) - psychosocial , distress , wife , medicine , psychological distress , gynaecological cancer , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cancer , psychology , gynecology , mental health , political science , law
This two‐part study, conducted at the Department of Oncology, Linn Clinic, Haifa, Israel, compared the psychological and psychosocial adjustment to illness of 44 gynaecological cancer patients to that of their spouses, and the adjustment to illness of these 44 married patients compared to 18 unmarried gynaecological cancer patients. In the first part of the study, differences in psychological distress between marriage partners, measured by Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), were found, the distress of the husband being more severe than that of the wife. In the second part of the study, the psychological distress of unmarried women was found to be more severe than that of married women.