A qualitative study examining psychosocial distress, coping, and social support across the stages and phases of epithelial ovarian cancer

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 366-383

  Power, Jenelle ^a,b,d   Brown, Laura ^c   Ritvo, Paul ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d B542 Loeb Building ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 41849100316     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330701876521     Document Type: Article

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