Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Adjustment After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 280-292

  Boehmer, Ulrike ^a   Glickman, Mark ^a,b   Winter, Michael ^a   Clark, Melissa A ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bisexuality; breast neoplasms; homosexuality; psychosocial adjustment; survivorship; women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; BREAST TUMOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LESBIANISM; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVOR; SURVIVORSHIP;

BISEXUALITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HOMOSEXUALITY; PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SURVIVORSHIP; WOMEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BISEXUALITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84885211754     PISSN: 10783903     EISSN: 15325725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078390313504587     Document Type: Article

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