Coping with appraised breast cancer risk among women with family histories of breast cancer

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 144-158

  Lancaster, Diane R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer risk appraisal; Coping; Family history; Jalowiec coping scale; Neuman systems model; Primary prevention; Secondary prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SCORING SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 17844391841     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20066     Document Type: Article

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