Coping with prostate cancer in Asian-American, native hawaiian, and caucasian families

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-206

  Mitschke, Diane B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Oncology; Prostate cancer; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FRIEND; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 61449123925     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981380802580513     Document Type: Article

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