Also, higher levels of anxious preoccupation were negatively related to quality of life in the presence of more information on treatment, although the correlation did not reach statistical significance, probably because of the limited sample size.
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Maladaptive coping styles moderate the relationship between information on cancer treatment and psychosocial symptoms: an Italian multicenter study.
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A multicentric Italian study ( Costantini et al., 2015 ) observed a prevalence of diagnosis awareness of 84% in cancer patients, similar to previous studies (86%) and confirming an increasing trend of information and communication compared to the past ( Bracci et al., 2008 ; Costantini et al., 2015 ).