Mother's home healthcare: Emotion work when a child has cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-65

  Clarke, Juanne N ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Care; Emotion; Home; Mothers; Work

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MATERNAL CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COST OF ILLNESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; NEOPLASM; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRUST; UNCERTAINTY; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; NEOPLASMS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRUST; UNCERTAINTY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33646087438     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200601000-00010     Document Type: Article

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