Psychology

Researchers from Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Report on Findings in Psychology

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 3rd, 2012

2012 APR 3 -- Investigators discuss in "The mobile phone as a tool in improving cancer care in Nigeria" new findings in Psychology. "The use of mobile phone as a tool for improving cancer care in a low resource setting. A total of 1176 oncology patients participated in the study," scientists writing in the journal Psycho-oncology report.

"Majority had breast cancer. 58.4% of the patients had no formal education; 10.7 and 9.5% of patients had college or graduate education respectively. Two out of every three patients lived greater than 200 km from hospital or clinic. One half of patients rented a phone to call. At 24 months, 97.6% (1132 patients) had...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2012-04-03)

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