The quality of life of male spouses of women with breast cancer: Hope, self-efficacy, and perceptions of guilt

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Duggleby, Wendy ^a   Doell, Heather ^b   Cooper, Dan ^c   Thomas, Roanne ^d   Ghosh, Sunita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SASKATCHEWAN CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c REGINA QU APPELLE HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

General self efficacy; Grief and loss; Hope; Male spouses; Quality of life; Women with breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HEALTH SURVEY; HOPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SPOUSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ALBERTA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HOPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPOUSES;

EID: 84890547434     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31827ca807     Document Type: Article

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