Cancer-related psychosocial research: What are the perspectives of cancer care centre users on participation?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1029-1035

  Hepworth, Julie ^a   Robertson, Ann R R ^b   Jhunjhunwala, Anita ^c   Jarvis, Glyn C ^d   McVittie, Chris ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Argosy University   (United States)

^d Maggie Keswick Jencks Centre Caring Centres Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Ethics; Oncology; Psychosocial; Recruitment; Research participation

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CAREGIVER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH ETHICS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ALTRUISM; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 80051588930     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-010-0931-9     Document Type: Article

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