Acculturation and the Cancer Pain Experience

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 358-370

  im, Eun ok ^a   ho, Tsung Han ^a   Brown, Adama ^a   Chee, Wonshik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

acculturation; Asian; cancer pain; Hispanic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349746882     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659609334932     Document Type: Article

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