The Patient Experience - Resource Listings

Resources below deal with a range of psychosocial issues. They include journal articles selected from medical databases and some articles that can be accessed through a journal’s or organization’s website. Also listed are relevant books and websites that provide information to health professionals or health care consumers.


  1. Communication
  2. Culture
  3. Families, Children and Caregivers
  4. Finances & Illness
  5. Hope
  6. Humour
  7. Illness Trajectory
  8. Literacy and Health Literacy
  9. Ovarian Cancer
  10. Patient/Survivor Perspectives of Illness
  11. Quality of Life (QOL)
  12. Rural Issues
  13. Sexuality
  14. Spirituality and Religion
  15. Stigma
  16. Support