تأثیر وضعیت مشارکت و حمایت اجتماعی در کیفیت کیفی نتایج زندگی در مردان مبتلا به سرطان پروستات

While we hypothesized that being partnered and having increased social support would have a positive effect on quality of life, we did not find this association in our longitudinal analysis. We propose that patterns of confiding in others and integration of a nurse case manager are highly gender based, and may provide possible explanations for our findings.