Ovarian cancer survivors: Qualitative analysis of the symptom of sexuality

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 699-708

  Wilmoth, Margaret C ^a   Hatmaker Flanigan, Elizabeth ^b   LaLoggia, Vanessa ^c   Nixon, Traci ^d  

^a Mobile Health Unit   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c Mid Carolinas Cardiology   (United States)

^d AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OVARY TUMOR; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUALITY; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUALITY; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80655127319     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/11.ONF.699-708     Document Type: Article

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