Disrupted lives and threats to identity: The experiences of people with colorectal cancer within the first year following diagnosis

Health

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-146

  Hubbard, Gill ^a   Kidd, Lisa ^a   Kearney, Nora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biographical disruption; Colorectal cancer; Identity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCOTLAND; SELF CONCEPT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 77649262576     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459309353294     Document Type: Article

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