Meaning Making in Cancer Survivors: A Focus Group Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  van der Spek, Nadia ^a   Vos, Joel ^b   van Uden Kraan, Cornelia F ^a   Breitbart, William ^c   Tollenaar, Rob A E M ^b   Cuijpers, Pim ^a   Verdonck de Leeuw, Irma M ^a,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84884633397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076089     Document Type: Article

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