Studying the social construction of cancer-related fatigue experience: The heuristic value of Ethnoscience

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 402-409

  Graffigna, Guendalina ^a   Vegni, Elena ^b   Barello, Serena ^a,b   Olson, Karin ^c   Bosio, Claudio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross cultural research; Ethnoscience; Fatigue; Illness experience; Psycho oncology; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIOMEDICINE; CANADA; CANCER FATIGUE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; ETHNOSCIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS; THAILAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; ENGLAND; FATIGUE; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; ITALY; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SICK ROLE; THAILAND;

EID: 79951956635     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.12.017     Document Type: Article

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