Spiritual therapy to improve the spiritual well-being of iranian women with breast cancer: A randomized controlled trial

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jafari, Najmeh ^a   Farajzadegan, Ziba ^a   Zamani, Ahmadreza ^a   Bahrami, Fatemeh ^b   Emami, Hamid ^a   Loghmani, Amir ^a   Jafari, Nooshin ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER PAIN; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOSS OF APPETITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOSLEM; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPIRITUAL HEALING; WELLBEING;

EID: 84884231729     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/353262     Document Type: Article

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