Networking, coping, and communicating about a medical crisis: A phenomenological inquiry of transplant recipient communication

Health Communication

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 141-161

  Bauer, Kristen M ^a   Orbe, Mark P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b 244 Lincoln Hall ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DONOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; COMMUNICATION; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TISSUE DONORS; ANECDOTES;

EID: 0035223390     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327027HC1302_2     Document Type: Article

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