Intervention to enhance empowerment in breast cancer self-help groups

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-57

  Stang, Ingun ^a   Mittelmark, Maurice B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Empowerment; Health promotion; Patient participation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROL; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CARE; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROGRAM EVALUATION; SELF CARE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 77949333996     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2009.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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