A dyadic affair: Who is to blame for causing and controlling the patient's lung cancer?

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 435-443

  Lobchuk, Michelle M ^a   Murdoch, Tammy ^a   McClement, Susan E ^a   McPherson, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congruence; Illness attributions; Lung cancer; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSIBILITY; SUPPORT GROUP; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY SIZE; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SMOKING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 61749097497     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000339253.68324.19     Document Type: Article

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