Information and behavioural instruction along the health-care pathway: The perspective of people undergoing hernia repair surgery and the role of formal and informal information sources

Health Expectations

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-159

  Powell, Rachael ^a,b   McKee, Lorna ^c   Bruce, Julie ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioural instruction; Help seeking; Hernia; Information; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HERNIA; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; HERNIA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 65949099960     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2009.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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