The personal development of mothers of terminal cancer patients: How japanese women change through the experience of caring for and losing their children to cancer

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 769-779

  Saiki Craighill, Shigeko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; NEOPLASMS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0036636527     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/10432302012006004     Document Type: Article

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