The questionnaire includes 52 items and has two parts: evaluation of individual resources for stress coping and investigation of various psychological symptoms.
Is competition beneficial (because it encourages cooperative behaviours and metastasis) or disadvantageous (because cells have less individual resources) for tumour growth?
The salutogenic potential as "enabling the patient to swim" stands for the mobilisation of individual resources for more autonomy [ 42, 62], which can be comparably expressed as the dimension of "personal autonomy" in our meta-ethnography results.
Intenders and actors will receive text messages providing information (1) on how to use individual resources for quitting (e.g. social support), (2) on how to overcome barriers to smoking cessation (e.g. friends who smoke and stress), and (3) methods to improve self-efficacy for smoking cessation.
Patients in the intervention group will receive an additional support by specialized oncology nurses for eight weeks after discharge from hospital by telephone, consisting of symptom monitoring, counselling on self-assessment and self-management and dealing with individual resources for coping and psychosocial well-being.
In estimating unit costs for individual resource activities, we endeavoured at all times to be conservative in any assumptions adopted.
The cooperation of individual resource persons in volunteering for contact sessions and fast-track capacity-building programmes has made the decentralized operationalization of the PHRN possible.
To facilitate this process, imputation, conditional on age, gender and treatment arm, was undertaken to estimate missing values for individual resource use at follow-up.
17, 18 In terms of individual resource components, physician consultations accounted for 46% of total direct costs and the cost of medication accounted for 31%.
In other words, individual resources that are valuable for getting a good job vary with the local employment environment.
