Developing a family-level intervention for families of children with cancer.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a family-level intervention for parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer. DESIGN: A one-group, pretest and post-test, quasi-experimental design. SETTING: A university hospital in Iceland. SAMPLE: 10 families (19 parents) of...
| Publicado en: | Oncology Nursing Forum Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 983 - 991 |
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Oncology Nursing Society
Sep2006
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