The caregiving experience in a racially diverse sample of cancer family caregivers

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 399-407

  Siefert, Mary Lou ^a   Williams, Anna Leila ^b   Dowd, Michael F ^b   Chappel Aiken, Lolita ^c   McCorkle, Ruth ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Cancer; Ethnic diversity; Family caregiver; Hispanic; Minority; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; STUDENT T TEST; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CAREGIVERS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149361377     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000305760.04357.96     Document Type: Article

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