Illness-related emotional experiences of patients living with incurable lung cancer: A qualitative metasynthesis

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 221-228

  Refsgaard, Birgit ^a   Frederiksen, Kirsten ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Experience; Feeling; Loss; Lung cancer; Metasynthesis; Qualitative study

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; GUILT; HOPE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; LONELINESS; LUNG CANCER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; UNCERTAINTY;

ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEAR; HUMANS; LONELINESS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84877011486     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e318268f983     Document Type: Article

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