A sample of 240 head and neck cancer patients was recruited from five
hospitals in Bangkok . The instruments included a : Set Test ; Demographic Questionnaire ;
Modified Symptom Experience Scale ; Buddhist Practices Scale ; Community version of
Mishel’s Uncertainty in Illness Scale ; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale ;
and , Version 4 of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General Scale . The
hypothesized model was tested using LISREL 8.52 .