Image of God: Effect on coping and psychospiritual outcomes in early breast cancer survivors

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-301

  Schreiber, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79955590702     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/11.ONF.293-301     Document Type: Article

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