The experience of spouses as informal caregivers for recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplants

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Wilson, Margaret E ^a,b   Eilers, June ^b   Heermann, Judith A ^a   Million, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant; Informal caregivers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COPING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY COPING; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COST OF ILLNESS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 67651113960     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31819962e0     Document Type: Article

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