"Getting used to it": Children finding the ordinary and routine in the uncertain context of cancer

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 394-407

  Stewart, Janet L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Child; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNCERTAINTY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037502937     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732302250336     Document Type: Article

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