Barriers to Pain Management in a Community Sample of Chinese American Patients with Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 665-675

  Edrington, Janet ^a   Sun, Angela ^b   Wong, Candice ^a   Dodd, Marylin ^a   Padilla, Geraldine ^a   Paul, Steven ^a   Miaskowski, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Chinese Community Health Resource Center   (United States)

Author keywords

acculturation; Barriers; cancer pain; Chinese; ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ACCULTURATION; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 63249097432     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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