The Adaptation of Mothers of Children With Intellectual Disability in Lebanon

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-380

  Azar, Mathilde ^a   Badr, Lina Kurdahi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^b AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; coping; developmentally disabled; developmentally impaired; intellectual disability; mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; LEBANON; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCOME; LEBANON; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOTHERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STEREOTYPING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33748290008     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659606291550     Document Type: Article

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