Identifying obstacles to participation in a questionnaire survey on widowers' grief

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Skulason, Bragi ^a   Helgason, Asgeir R ^a,b  

^a REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEREAVEMENT; CONFIDENTIALITY; GRIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ICELAND; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; WIDOWER;

EID: 77951546880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-9-7     Document Type: Article

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