Cultural meanings of pain: A qualitative study of Black Caribbean and White British patients with advanced cancer

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 350-359

  Koffman, Jonathan ^a   Morgan, M ^a   Edmonds, P ^a   Speck, P ^a   Higginson, I J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Culture; Ethnicity; Meanings; Pain; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NARRATIVE; NOCICEPTION; ONCOLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PUNISHMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINALLY ILL; WEST INDIES;

EID: 46049104391     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308090168     Document Type: Article

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