Parental experience of family resources in single-parent families having a child with cancer

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2741-2749

  Huang, I Chen ^a   Mu, Pei Fan ^a   Chiou, Tzeon Jye ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Child nursing; Family health; Family nursing; Nurses; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SINGLE PARENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY;

EID: 52049104948     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02447.x     Document Type: Article

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