Corelate psihosociale ale cancerului: o trecere în revistă
Psychosocial correlates of cancer: a literature review

Summary/Abstract: This article reviews literature on the psychosocial correlate of cancer relapse and survival from 1987 through 2007. Reviewed studies have shown that factors most frequently evaluated were depression, anxiety, hopelessness/hopelessness, hostility, marital status and social involvement. Mainly inconsistent results were found. The strong evidence for a relationship between psychosocial variable and prognosis was found for social support. Among the factors that showed no correlation at all was locus of control. For the inconsistent findings, a considerable number of methodologic shortcomings with respect to study design, sample size, measure and statistic analysis are enumerated.

• Details
• Contents