Healing touch and quality of life in women receiving radiation treatment for cancer: A randomized controlled trial

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 34-41

  Cook, Cynthia A Loveland ^a   Guerrerio, Joanne F ^b   Slater, Victoria E ^c  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALING; HEALING TOUCH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THERAPEUTIC TOUCH; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 2442715549     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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