Spiritual well-being and caregiver burden in Alzheimer's caregivers

Geriatric Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 154-161

  Spurlock, Wanda Raby ^a  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 20944440623     PISSN: 01974572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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