Family predictors of psychosocial outcomes among Hong Kong Chinese cancer patients in palliative care: Living and dying with the support paradox

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 519-532

  Chan, Wallace C H ^a   Epstein, Irwin ^b   Reese, Dona ^c   Chan, Cecilia L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chinese; Dying; Family; Palliative care; Paradox; Psychosocial; Support

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70350438116     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981380902765824     Document Type: Article

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