The preoperative experience of patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer: A phenomenological study

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 418-424

  Worster, Barbara ^a   Holmes, Susan ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Informational needs; Phenomenology; Preoperative experience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEAR; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRUST; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; ENGLAND; FAMILY; FEAR; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONELINESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRUST; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 56949097154     PISSN: 14623889     EISSN: 15322122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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