Coping together and apart: Exploring how patients and their caregivers manage terminal head and neck cancer

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-326

  Foxwell, K R ^a   Scott, S E ^b  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

caregiver; communication; dyadic coping; framework analysis; social support; terminal head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYADIC COPING; FAMILY COPING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 79957589365     PISSN: 07347332     EISSN: 15407586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07347332.2011.563343     Document Type: Article

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