Differences in religiousness among black and white women with breast cancer

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-39

  Bourjolly, Joretha N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINORITY GROUP; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0031927648     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v28n01_02     Document Type: Article

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