How Do I Cope? Factors Affecting Mothers' Abilities to Cope With Pediatric Cancer

Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 285-298

  Fletcher, Paula C ^a   Schneider, Margaret A ^a   Harry, Rebecca J ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

coping; mothers; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956015834     PISSN: 10434542     EISSN: 15328457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043454209360839     Document Type: Article

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