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Cancer Diagnosis
Spiritual coping is important to women with diagnosis of gynecological cancer
November 10th, 2005
Investigators discover that spirituality and spiritual coping are important to women with a diagnosis of gynecological cancer. "The objective of a study" by researchers from Australia "was to determine whether, after accounting for illness and demographic variables, spiritual involvement and beliefs and positive and negative spiritual coping could account for any of the variation in anxiety and depression among women within 1 year's diagnosis of gynecological cancer (GC)." "One hundred patients from outpatient GC clinics at two Melbourne-based hospitals completed a brief structured interview and self-report measures of anxiety, depression,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-11-10)
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