'One wants to know what a chromosome is': The internet as a coping resource when adjusting to life parenting a child with a rare genetic disorder

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-95

  Gundersen, Tonje ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NOVA   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antonovsky; Coping; Internet; Parents; Rare disorders

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHROMOSOME; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RARE DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHROMOSOMES; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; RARE DISEASES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78651347749     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01277.x     Document Type: Article

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