Social support and coping in Turkish patients with cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 498-504

  Tan, Mehtap ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Coping strategies; Social support; Turkish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WAYS OF COPING QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TURKEY;

EID: 36348987687     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000300158.60273.ba     Document Type: Article

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