Survivor loneliness of women following breast cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-183

  Rosedale, Mary ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; EMPATHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; LONELINESS; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; WRITING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EMPATHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; WOMEN; WRITING;

EID: 67649214098     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/09.ONF.175-183     Document Type: Article

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