The impact of a multimedia informational intervention on healthcare service use among women and men newly diagnosed with cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-44

  Loiselle, Carmen G ^a,b   Dubois, Sylvie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast and prostate cancers; Cancer information; Health service utilization; Informational support; Interactive health communication; Multimedia informational interventions; Oncology; Patient education; Quasi experimental design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPACT DISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTIMEDIA; NEOPLASM; NURSE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WEB BROWSER; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERNET; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERNET; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMEDIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 60849113743     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000343371.24517.66     Document Type: Article

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