Coping Skills Among African-American Breast Cancer Survivors

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 434-448

  Davis, Cindy ^a   Rust, Connie ^b   Darby, Kathleen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b South College School of Pharmacy   (United States)

^c MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; breast cancer; coping; minority; skills; survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84878455477     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2012.742482     Document Type: Article

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