Health Care Choices: Complementary Therapy, Chronic Illness, and Older Rural Dwellers

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 381-394

  Nichols, Elizabeth ^a   Sullivan, Therese ^a   Ide, Bette ^b   Shreffler Grant, Jean ^a   Weinert, Clarann ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic illness; complementary therapy; older rural dwellers

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CARE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTANA; NARRATION; NORTH DAKOTA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CARE;

EID: 33644878126     PISSN: 08980101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898010105281088     Document Type: Article

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