Meaning making: Psychological adjustment to breast cancer by Chinese women

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-262

  Ching, Shirley S Y ^a   Martinson, Ida M ^b   Wong, Thomas K S ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Tung Wah College   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

breast; cancer; China; Chinese culture; coping and adaptation; grounded theory; nursing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855789332     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732311421679     Document Type: Article

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