Seeking meaning and hope: Self-reported spiritual and existential needs among an ethnically-diverse cancer patient population

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 378-385

  Moadel, Alyson ^a   Morgan, Carole ^a   Fatone, Anne ^a   Grennan, Jennifer ^a   Carter, Jeanne ^a   Laruffa, Gia ^a   Skummy, Anne ^a   Dutcher, Janice ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; DEATH; DYING; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; POPULATION; RELIGION; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SELF CONCEPT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032695898     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1611(199909/10)8:5<378::AID-PON406>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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