Improving Women's Adjustment to HIV Infection: Results of the Positive Life Skills Workshop Project

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-65

  Bova, Carol ^a   Burwick, Tobey Nestor ^a   Quinones, Maritza ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

group intervention; HIV; women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SELF HELP; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEGATIVISM; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 37849012472     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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