Intervening to reduce anxiety for women with mild dyskaryosis: Do we know what works and why?

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 563-570

  Somerset, Maggie ^a   Peters, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervical dyskaryosis; Educational intervention; Practice nurse; Primary health care; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT EDUCATION; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0032161389     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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