Relationships among illness uncertainty, stress, coping, and emotional well-being at entry into a clinical drug trial

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 53-60

  Wineman, N Margaret ^a,b   Schwetz, Kathleen M ^b   Goodkin, Donald E ^c   Rudick, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030133434     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0897-1897(96)80413-7     Document Type: Article

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