Art therapy, as a non-pharmacological medical complementary and alternative therapy, has
been used as one of medical interventions with good clinical effects on mental disorders …

Distress is experienced by many cancer patients, adversely affecting quality of life and
cancer care. Although it is often manageable, it remains woefully underidentified and …

Objective To quantify the link between lower, subclinically symptomatic, levels of
psychological distress and cause-specific mortality in a large scale, population based study …

Purpose This review summarizes the need for and process of screening for distress and
assessing unmet needs of patients with cancer as well as the possible benefits of …

Objective Stress impacts the quality of life and is associated with increased risk of mental
and physical disorders. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is widely used for measuring …

Chronic stress is well-known to cause physiological distress that leads to body balance
perturbations by altering signaling pathways in the neuroendocrine and sympathetic …

Objective: Attachment insecurity has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for the
development of disease and chronic illness. This study was the first to investigate …

The prevalence of chronic diseases in China has increased rapidly in recent decades.
Although the management rate of chronic diseases has improved, there is still no unified …

Epidemiologic evidence increasingly has supported the role of biobehavioral risk factors
such as social adversity, depression, and stress in cancer progression. This review …

Purpose/Objectives To develop an instrument to measure the stigma perceived by people
with lung cancer based on the HIV Stigma Scale. Design Psychometric analysis. Setting …