Qualitative analysis of couples' experience with prostate cancer by age cohort

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 367-377

  Harden, Janet K ^a   Northouse, Laurel L ^b   Mood, Darlene W ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Couples; Developmental Life Stage; Prostate Cancer; Spouses

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY RELATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPOUSES;

EID: 33749258892     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200609000-00004     Document Type: Article

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