Development of the Ways of Helping Questionnaire: A measure of preferred coping strategies for older African American cancer survivors

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-259

  Hamilton, Jill B ^a   Stewart, Barbara J ^b   Crandell, Jamie L ^a,c   Lynn, Mary R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cancer; Coping; Instrument development; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NORTH CAROLINA; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 66149135595     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20321     Document Type: Article

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