Protective Factors of Demoralization among Cancer Patients in Taiwan: An Age-matched and Gender-matched Study
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Nursing Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1976-1317
DOI: 10.1016/j.anr.2017.07.001