Complementary and alternative modalities used by women with female-specific cancers

Holistic Nursing Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 127-138

  Eschiti, Valerie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative; CAM; Cancer; Complementary; Female specific

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

EID: 43249111984     PISSN: 08879311     EISSN: 15505138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HNP.0000318020.07410.85     Document Type: Article

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