Somebody else's heart inside me: A descriptive study of psychological problems after a heart transplantation

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 611-625

  Kaba, Evridiki ^a   Thompson, David R ^b   Burnard, Philip ^a,c   Edwards, Deborah ^c   Theodosopoulou, Eleni ^d  

^a General Hospital of Volos   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONALITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCOTLAND; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 22544441363     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840590959452     Document Type: Article

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