An online forum exploring needs for help of patients with cancer: Gender and ethnic differences

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 653-660

  Im, Eun Ok ^a   Chee, Wonshik ^b   Lim, Hyun Ju ^a   Liu, Wen Miao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COOPERATION; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEN; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREJUDICE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEXAS; TRUST; WOMEN;

EID: 53449095032     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/08.ONF.653-660     Document Type: Article

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