The relationships among coping strategies, religious coping, and spirituality in african american women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 120-131

  Gaston Johansson, Fannie ^a   Haisfield Wolfe, Mary Ellen ^b   Reddick, Bobbie ^c   Goldstein, Nancy ^a   Lawal, Tokunbor A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CATASTROPHIZING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATASTROPHIZATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874614941     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/13.ONF.120-131     Document Type: Article

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