Coping with breast cancer survivorship in Chinese women: The role of fatalism or fatalistic voluntarism

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 236-244

  Cheng, Huilin ^a   Sit, Janet W H ^a   Twinn, Sheila F ^a   Cheng, Karis K F ^b   Thorne, Sally ^c  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chinese; Coping and adaptation; Culture survivorship; Fatalism; Fatalistic voluntarism; Self care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SPIRITUALITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84877025895     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31826542b2     Document Type: Article

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