Accepting Pain Management or Seeking Pain Cure: An Exploration of Patients' Attitudes to Chronic Pain

Pain Management Nursing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 102-110

  Clarke, Kathryn A ^a   Iphofen, Ron ^a  

^a WREXHAM MAELOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING DISCIPLINE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; SPECIALTIES, NURSING;

EID: 34249746377     PISSN: 15249042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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