An empowerment intervention for women living with HIV and its adaptation for women with a diagnosis of breast cancer

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4 SUPPL. 5, 2005, Pages

  Zorrilla, Carmen D ^a   Santiago, Lydia E ^a   Hilerio, Cibel ^a   Estronza, Georgamaly ^a   Falk, Therese ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Adherence; Antiretroviral therapy; Breast cancer; Empowerment; HIV; Women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMAGERY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; MEDITATION; NUTRITION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUERTO RICO; RELIGION; SKILL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PUERTO RICO; SURVIVORS;

EID: 29244437500     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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