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Development of a scale to assess cancer stigma in the non-patient population

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. Green open access

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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.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1428580
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