Identifying problems faced by spouses and partners of patients with prostate cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 807-814

  Hawes, Starlyn M ^a   Malcarne, Vanessa L ^b,c   Ko, Celine M ^d   Sadler, Georgia Robins ^c,e   Banthia, Rajni ^f   Sherman, Sandra A ^d   Varni, James W ^g   Schmidt, Joseph ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSTATE TUMOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SPOUSES;

EID: 33746196491     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/06.ONF.807-814     Document Type: Article

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