Measuring Fear Of Cancer: The Fear Of Cancer Index

Measuring Fear Of Cancer: The Fear Of Cancer Index

Fear of cancer appears to play an important role in cancer knowledge, health beliefs and health seeking behavior. There are few measures of fear of cancer in the literature. In this article, we present a new fear of cancer measure, the Fear of Cancer Index (FCI). The FCI is a symptom associated meas...

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Veröffentlicht in:Psychology & health 1992-10, Vol.7 (3), p.187-200
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