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Coping: significance, influence in health and illness process and importance to nursing

This article is a bibliographic review about Coping in a cognitive-interactionist model. The goal is to analyse this psychologycal referencial within the health-illness process and stress its importance and the possible ways to be worked by nurses, understanding that it can be an important model which direct them in the development of their assistencial works.

Coping; Health-illness; Nursing


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