Children's Preoperative Coping and Its Effects on Postoperative Anxiety and Return to Normal Activity

Nursing Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 141-147

  Lamontagne, Lynda L ^a   Hepworth, Joseph T ^b   Johnson, Barbara D ^a   Cohen, Frances ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONTROL; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030136836     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-199605000-00004     Document Type: Article

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