Intimacy and Multiple Sclerosis

Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 605-619

  Moore, Linda A ^a,b  

^a Carolinas College of Health Sciences   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; COITUS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEX COUNSELING; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 35748975425     PISSN: 00296465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2007.07.007     Document Type: Review

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