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The meaning and validation of social support networks for close family of persons with advanced cancer

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Nursing, September 2012
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Title
The meaning and validation of social support networks for close family of persons with advanced cancer
Published in
BMC Nursing, September 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6955-11-17
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Authors

Catarina Sjolander, Gerd Ahlstrom

Abstract

To strengthen the mental well-being of close family of persons newly diagnosed as having cancer, it is necessary to acquire a greater understanding of their experiences of social support networks, so as to better assess what resources are available to them from such networks and what professional measures are required. The main aim of the present study was to explore the meaning of these networks for close family of adult persons in the early stage of treatment for advanced lung or gastrointestinal cancer. An additional aim was to validate the study's empirical findings by means of the Finfgeld-Connett conceptual model for social support. The intention was to investigate whether these findings were in accordance with previous research in nursing.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Ghana 1 2%
Unknown 62 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Postgraduate 4 6%
Other 12 19%
Unknown 19 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 12 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 16%
Psychology 8 13%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Computer Science 3 5%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 20 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 November 2018.
All research outputs
#7,173,418
of 22,678,224 outputs
Outputs from BMC Nursing
#242
of 740 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#53,916
of 170,681 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Nursing
#3
of 7 outputs
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