Confronting the unexpected: Temporal, situational, and attributive dimensions of distressing symptom experience for breast cancer survivors

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Rosedale, Mary ^a   Fu, Mei R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROL; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVOR; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949314976     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/10.ONF.E28-E33     Document Type: Article

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