After going through chemotherapy I can't see another needle

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-48

  Cox, Anna Clare ^a   Fallowfield, Lesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Chemotherapy; Needle anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN;

EID: 33846658405     PISSN: 14623889     EISSN: 15322122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2006.04.035     Document Type: Article

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