Making the best of it': chinese women's experiences of adjusting to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-165

  Fu, Mei R ^a   Xu, Bo ^b   Liu, Yang ^a   Haber, Judith ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Adjustment; breast cancer; Chinese women; Coping; Interviews; Inursing; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 54449085368     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04647.x     Document Type: Article

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