Does blaming the patient with lung cancer affect the helping behavior of primary caregivers?

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 681-689

  Lobchuk, Michelle M ^a   McClement, Susan E ^a   McPherson, Christine ^b   Cheang, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COOPERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MANITOBA; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 53449090166     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/08.ONF.681-689     Document Type: Article

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