Dealing with stress: Patterns of self-comfort among healthcare students

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 476-484

  Dahlqvist, Vera ^a,b   Söderberg, Anna ^a   Norberg, Astrid ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Institute for Health Sciences   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comfort; Content analysis; Healthcare students; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEISURE; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELAXATION TRAINING; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; STUDENTS, NURSING; SWEDEN;

EID: 41849143450     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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