Emotion work: Disclosing cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-215

  Yoo, Grace J ^a   Aviv, Caryn ^b   Levine, Ellen G ^a   Ewing, Cheryl ^c   Au, Alfred ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Emotion work; Self disclosure; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 76549092848     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0646-y     Document Type: Article

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