Social Support as Influencing Primary Family Caregiver Burden in Taiwanese Patients With Colorectal Cancer

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 223-231

  Shieh, Shiouh Chu ^a   Tung, Hengh Sin ^b   Liang, Shu Yuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Burden; Caregiver; Colorectal cancer; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN;

EID: 84865626997     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2012.01453.x     Document Type: Article

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