Expressive writing in women with advanced breast cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1019-1024

  Laccetti, Margaret ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF DISCLOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF DISCLOSURE; WRITING;

EID: 35548931495     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/07.ONF.1019-1024     Document Type: Article

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