Life after diagnosis social support among women with breast cancer

• Main Author: Gomez, Maria Virginia B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1999
• Subjects: Breast > Cancer; Breast > Diseases > Diagnosis; Support (Domestic relations); Women; Cancer > Patients; Life change events; Health Services Administration; Women's Health
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1982
• Institution: De La Salle University

This exploratory study examines what social support women diagnosed with breast cancer need and what they actually receive from the perspectives of the women themselves (n=30), their family caregivers (n=20) and medical healthcare providers (n=5).The results of the study generated similar taxonomies...