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| Published: June 25, 2016
Health Locus of Control and Health Behaviours in Lung Cancer Patients
Research scholar, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.192/20160303
DOI: 10.25215/0303.192
ABSTRACT
With growing number of cancer survivors, health behaviours may become relevant not only to prevention of cancer recurrence and improved survival, but also to quality of life and the reduction of risk for other chronic diseases. Given the importance of relatively good health as a basis for many of life’s pursuits and pleasures, it is understandable that cancer patients would seek to avoid illness and death, and indefinitely seek to obtain a state of better health. The present study aimed at studying the relationship of health behaviours and health locus of control in patients diagnosed with lung cancer. Results show that internal health locus of control was positively correlated with health promoting behaviours and negatively correlated with health impairing behaviours and external health locus of control was negatively correlated with health promoting behaviours and positively correlated with health impairing behaviours.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016 I M Tripathi, H Asthana, A Asthana
Received: May 20, 2016; Revision Received: June 02, 2016; Accepted: June 25, 2016
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.192/20160303
10.25215/0303.192
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 3, April-June, 2016