Searching for meaning: Narratives and analysis of US-resident Chinese immigrants with metastatic cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 250-258

  Lin, Hung Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese immigrant; Meaning in life; Metastatic cancer; Narrative analysis; Topical life history

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LIFE HISTORY; LOVE; MALE; METASTASIS; NARRATIVE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION CARE; RELIGION; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43249119362     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000305726.72969.07     Document Type: Article

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