Use of computer technology to enhance immigrant families' adaptation

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-93

  Tsai, Jenny Hsin Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer technology; Critical ethnography; Immigrants; Mental health; Minority; Psychosocial stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; E-MAIL; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CHILD; COMPUTER LITERACY; COMPUTER USER TRAINING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN;

EID: 33645150288     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2006.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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