Blogging through cancer: Young women's persistent problems shared online

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-172

  Keim Malpass, Jessica ^a   Baernholdt, Marianne ^a   Erickson, Jeanne M ^a   Ropka, Mary E ^b   Schroen, Anneke T ^c   Steeves, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEAR; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIFE EVENT; NARRATIVE; NEOPLASM; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF REPORT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BLOGGING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; PAIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84874281744     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31824eb879     Document Type: Article

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