Coping with future epidemics: Tai chi practice as an overcoming strategy used by survivors of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in post-SARS Hong Kong

Health Expectations

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 762-772

  Siu, Judy Yuen man ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Tai chi; Hong Kong; Overcoming strategy; Post SARS; SARS survivors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL STIGMA; SURVIVOR; TAI CHI; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL STIGMA; SURVIVORS; TAI JI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964450668     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hex.12270     Document Type: Article

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