Adaptation of wives to prostate cancer following diagnosis and 3 months after treatment: A test of family adaptation theory

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 827-838

  Helene Ezer ^a   Nicole Ricard, ^b   Louise Bouchard, ^b   Souhami, Luis ^c   Saad, Fred ^d   Aprikian, Armen ^c   Taguchi, Yoshi ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Caregivers; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFTERCARE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFTERCARE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33746794224     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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