The Sense of Coherence in Hospitalized Cardiac and Cancer Patients

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 286-294

  Bruscia, Kenneth ^a   Shultis, Carol ^a   Dennery, Karen ^a   Dileo, Cheryl ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; cardiac; demographic variables; sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INPATIENTS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW ENGLAND; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 63449097678     PISSN: 08980101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898010108317400     Document Type: Article

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