Are psychosocial interventions targeting older African American cancer survivors culturally appropriate?: A review of the literature

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hamilton, Jill B ^a   Agarwal, Mansi ^a   Song, Lixin ^a   Moore, Maj Angelo D ^b   Best, Nakia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cancer; Culturally appropriate; Psychosocial interventions; Review of literature; strategies

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL CLASS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84857923352     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31821e0b11     Document Type: Article

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