Illness stories on the Internet: Features of websites disclosing breast cancer patients' illness stories in the Dutch language

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 435-442

  Overberg, Regina ^a   Toussaint, Pieter ^a   Zwetsloot Schonk, Bertie ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Illness stories; Internet; Websites

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; BREAST CANCER; EDITOR; INTERNET; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEARCH ENGINE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NARRATION; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SICK ROLE;

EID: 33646757897     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2005.05.010     Document Type: Article

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