Enabling mutual helping? Examining variable needs for facilitated peer support

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Skea, Zoë C ^a   MacLennan, Sara J ^b   Entwistle, Vikki A ^c   N'Dow, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Peer support; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TESTIS CANCER; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80053978823     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.01.032     Document Type: Article

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