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The relation of social support with gender specific stress responses and coping in colonrectal cancer patients - a interculturel randomised study between Graz and Jerusalem

Abstract

The planned explorative long-time study using a broad sample of colon cancer patients, married and single ones from two different cultural settings (Graz and Jerusalem) and using standardized methods and a repeated measurements design, shall gain those factors correlated to quality of life and coping with the illness of the patients to be able to create new treatment standards, increasing quality of life and coping and reinforcing the related social functioning of the patients and their functioning in the family.

Keywords

clinical psychology

colon cancer

coping

distress

Distress

Kolonkarzinom

Lebensqualität

quality of life

social support

Project Leader:

Dietmaier Gabriele

Duration:

01.11.2005-30.07.2007

Programme:

Jubiläumsfonds (ÖNB)

Type of Research

applied research

Staff

Dietmaier G., Project Leader

MUG Research Units

Division of Oncology

Project partners

Hadassah Medical Organization, Israel

Funded by

Österreichische Nationalbank (Jubiläumsfonds), Otto Wagner Platz 3, A-1090 Wien, Austria