Experience of anxiety among patients with severe COPD: A qualitative, in-depth interview study

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 465-472

  Strang, Susann ^a,b   Ekberg Jansson, Ann ^a,b   Henoch, Ingela ^b  

^a Angered Local Hospital   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; COPD; Coping; Death; Existential; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANXIETY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPLICATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SWEDEN; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SWEDEN;

EID: 84905987375     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951513000369     Document Type: Article

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