Different instruments have been used to measure social support in epidemiological studies
of which the most widely used is the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Scale (SSS …

Social support is supposed to have a beneficial effect on the health and wellbeing of people.
It is a central concept in the 'EUropean Research on Incapacitating DIseases and Social …

Standardization of Social Support Scale (MOS) of Adults who have Chronic Diseases in
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Background/aim: Cancer has become an important public health challenge all around the
world. Though the demographic and clinical features of cancer patients are well …

Goals of work To investigate potentially health-enhancing domains of cancer patients' social
relationships we evaluated various dimensions of social support as experienced in early …

BACKGROUND Social support is a relational transaction between individuals. 5 Three
primary properties of social support include social embeddedness, perceived social support …

BACKGROUND Perceived social support has been reported to act as a cushion for
psychological distress, the defi-ciency of which may precipitate unfavorable consequences …

Social support is a concept that, because of its pervasive role in human affairs, needs
operationalization and assessment. One of the primary confusions about social support is …

Objective: The aims of this study were twofold—first, to use confirmatory factor analysis
(CFA) to help assess which of the previously identified factor structures (identified through …

Methods: This is a cross sectional study. The socio-demographic and clinical information of
the selected patients from psychiatric outpatient clinic over a 3-month period, were obtained …