9th CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY (ESPO-9), AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 7-10 JULY 1996.

This article presents information regarding the research papers presented in the 9th conference of the European Society for Psychosocial Oncology, Amsterdam, Netherlands. One of the papers studies the motivation for changing or maintaining sun tanning and protection behaviour among adolescents. It was a multiple-case study with semi structured qualitative interviews. The research population were 20 persons by the age of 15 to 27. The data material were divided into three groups according to position in a process of change of behaviour. The aim of this study is to register cancer patients evaluation of their quality of life (QOL) in the last period of their life. This type of registration is considered difficult because of the advanced disease of the patient. Therefore we also tested QOL assessment, performed by the patient's nurse.