Caring for a parent with lung cancer: Caregivers' perspectives on the role of communication

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 957-970

  Stone, Anne M ^a   Mikucki Enyart, Sylvia ^b   Middleton, Ashley ^b   Caughlin, John P ^b   Brown, Laura E ^c  

^a ROLLINS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; caregivers caregiving; communication; end of life issues; families; families, caregiving; interviews; relationships, parent child

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNICATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84861796720     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312443428     Document Type: Review

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