Receiving Palliative Treatment Moderates the Effect of Age and Gender on Demoralization in Patients with Cancer

BACKGROUND: Existential distress is an important factor affecting psychological well-being in cancer patients. We studied occurrence and predictors of demoralization, a syndrome of existential distress, in particular the interaction of age, gender, and curative vs. palliative treatment phase. METHOD...

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Autores principales: Vehling, Sigrun, Oechsle, Karin, Koch, Uwe, Mehnert, Anja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23555030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059417

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23555030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059417

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