“The Uncertainty Is What Is Driving Me Crazy”: The Tripartite Model of Uncertainty in the Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Context

Health Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 702-713

  Donovan, Erin E ^a   Brown, Laura E ^a   LeFebvre, Leah ^b   Tardif, Sarah ^a   Love, Brad ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVORS; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928541747     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.898193     Document Type: Article

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