Parents of healthy children assign lower quality of life measure to scenarios labeled as cancer than to identical scenarios not labeled as cancer
Abstract Background While it is commonly understood that a cancer diagnosis evokes feelings of fear, the effect of labeling a child’s illness as “cancer” remains unstudied. We hypothesized that lower health utility scores would be assigned to disease states labeled as cancer compared to identical di...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-02-01
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| Series: | BMC Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40359-019-0280-5 |