Purpose/Objectives: To provide a clearly constructed definition of the concept of symptoms
experience. Data Sources: Articles and book chapters. Data Synthesis: Symptoms …

Aaron Antonovsky's sense of coherence (SOC)[(1987) Unraveling the Mystery of Health,
How People Manage Stress and Stay Well, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco] ought to explain …

Introduction. The need to detect pancreatic cancer at earlier stages is undisputed. We
recorded the signs and symptoms of patients presenting with exocrine pancreatic cancer …

Health care providers play a key role in providing adequate symptom management and
promoting quality of life during chronic illness. Several studies have noted that adults with …

Levels of symptom distress are most often measured in a clinical trial context rather than in
general ambulatory populations. The purpose of this paper is to report levels of symptom …

Abstract MARIANNE J. BRADY The examination of psychosocial adjustment in cancer
patients requires focusing upon both negative psychosocial sequelae, such as anxiety and …

We explored the stability of sense of coherence (SOC) and the relationship between SOC
and health in two cross-lagged longitudinal samples by using structural equation modeling …

Psychosocial factors such as work characteristics, life events, social support, and personality
were examined as predictors of the change in medically certified sickness absence …

Few studies explore patients' experiences of smell and taste changes during cytotoxic
chemotherapy. Issues, such as how such changes impact daily life, their consequences, and …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To analyse the association between self rated health and the
incidence of fatal and non-fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) in a Danish cohort followed …