"You can only take so much, and it took everything out of me": Coping strategies used by parents of children with cancer

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 197-206

  Miedema, Baukje ^a   Hamilton, Ryan ^a   Fortin, Pierrette ^b   Easley, Julie ^a   Matthews, Maria ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Childhood; Coping; Emotion; Parents

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; NEOPLASM; PARENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; TRAVEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEW BRUNSWICK; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PARENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRAVEL;

EID: 77956989628     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951510000015     Document Type: Article

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