A brief intervention to minimize psychosexual morbidity in dyads coping with breast cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 176-185

  Decker, Carol L ^a   Pais, Shobha ^a   Miller, Kathy D ^a   Goulet, Robert ^b   Fife, Betsy L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUALITY; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALITY; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859753267     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/12.ONF.176-185     Document Type: Article

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