Strategies for recreating normal life: Iranian coronary heart disease patients' perspectives on coping strategies

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 15-16, 2014, Pages 2151-2161

  Najafi Ghezeljeh, Tahereh ^a   Emami, Azita ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Coping strategies; Coronary heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING PROCESS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING PROCESS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84904418996     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12428     Document Type: Article

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