Adjustment to illness and dropout of chemotherapy

Ora Gilbar; Atara Kaplan De-Nour

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Adjustment to illness and dropout of chemotherapy

Ora Gilbar
, Atara Kaplan De-Nour

School of Social Work

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The study compares the adjustment to illness of a group of 53 cancer patients who dropped out of chemotherapy with a matched group of 53 cancer patients who completed their treatment. The patients were treated in five oncological institutes in Israel. We found differences both in the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (PAIS) and Brief Symptom Inventory Scale (BSI). In both scales we found significant differences indicating that the degree of adjustment and the psychosocial distress of patients who dropped out of treatment was worse than that of patients who completed treatment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume	33
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3999(89)90100-1
State	Published - 1989

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