Timing is everything: The experience of parental cancer for young adult daughters - A pilot study

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-121

  Puterman, Jenny ^a   Cadell, Susan ^b,c  

^a VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Daughters; Parental cancer; Qualitative; Social timing; Young adulthood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHRONOLOGY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAUGHTER; FAMILY STRESS; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HOPE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTAL CANCER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PILOT STUDY; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LYMPHOMA; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; SPIRITUALITY; TIME PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 39749160535     PISSN: 07347332     EISSN: 15407586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J077v26n02_07     Document Type: Article

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