Cultural aspects of the Puerto Rican cancer experience: The mother as the main protagonist

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 811-820

  Rivero Vergne, Alicia ^a   Berrios, Reinaldo ^a   Romero, Ivonne ^a  

^a INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Cancer; Caregiving; Children; Culture; Families; Fathers; Grounded theory; Illness and disease; Mothering; Phenomenology; Psychosocial aspects; Puerto Ricans; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY COPING; FAMILY RELATION; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATERNAL ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUERTO RICO;

ADOLESCENT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTHERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 44149109894     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308318505     Document Type: Article

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