Counseling Needs of Women with Breast Cancer: What the Women Tell Us

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 24-29

  Trief, Paula M ^a   Donohue Smith, Maureen ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ELMIRA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030147220     PISSN: 02793695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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