Sexual Counseling in Patients with Heart Failure: A Silent Phenomenon: Results from a Convergent Parallel Mixed Method Study

Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 53-61

  Kolbe, Nina ^a   Kugler, Christiane ^b   Schnepp, Wilfried ^a   Jaarsma, Tiny ^c  

^a Landscape Architecture   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

heart failure; nursing; sex counseling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; SEX COUNSELING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85028278673     PISSN: 08894655     EISSN: 15505049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000215     Document Type: Article

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