Measuring post-traumatic growth in people diagnosed with hepatobiliary cancer: Directions for future research

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 643-650

  Steel, Jennifer L ^a   Gamblin, Clark ^a   Carr, Brian I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BILIARY TRACT TUMOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LIFE EVENT; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PENNSYLVANIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE;

EID: 53449086953     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/08.ONF.643-650     Document Type: Article

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