Feeling states: A new approach to understanding how children and adolescents with cancer experience symptoms

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-238

  Woodgate, Roberta Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children with cancer; Feeling states; Interpretive description; Qualitative research; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 43249129847     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000305731.95839.ca     Document Type: Article

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