The relationship between meaning of illness, social support, coping strategies, and quality of life for lung cancer patients and their family members

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-119

  Downe Wamboldt, Barbara ^a   Butler, Lorna ^a   Coulter, Lynn ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Family; Meaning of illness; Non small cell lung cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOVA SCOTIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33646714444     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200603000-00006     Document Type: Article

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