Somatic awareness, uncertainty, and delay in care-seeking in acute heart failure

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-86

  Jurgens, Corrine Y ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay in care seeking; Heart failure; Somatic awareness; Symptom awareness; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; SELF EVALUATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CARE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33645967822     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20118     Document Type: Article

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