Virtual reality: A distraction intervention for chemotherapy

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-46

  Schneider, Susan M ^a   Hood, Linda E ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34250335363     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/07.ONF.39-46     Document Type: Article

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