Marlow, LA;
Wardle, J;
(2014)
Development of a scale to assess cancer stigma in the non-patient population.
BMC Cancer
, 14
(1)
, Article 285. 10.1186/1471-2407-14-285.
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Abstract
Illness-related stigma has attracted considerable research interest, but few studies have specifically examined stigmatisation of cancer in the non-patient population. The present study developed and validated a Cancer Stigma Scale (CASS) for use in the general population.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Development of a scale to assess cancer stigma in the non-patient population |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2407-14-285 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-285 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 Marlow and Wardle; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | CASS; Cancer; Scale; Measure; Blame; Attitudes; |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1428580 |
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