Authors' Affiliations: School of Nursing (Ms Lambert and Drs Loiselle and Macdonald), Department of Oncology (Dr Macdonald), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Centre for Nursing Research, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Dr Loiselle); and Montreal Children's Hospital, Quebec, Canada (Dr Macdonald).
This work was supported, in part, by a doctoral research award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), a doctoral training award from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute of Canada Strategic Training Program Award in Psychosocial Oncology, and a doctoral student project grant from the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en sciences infirmières de Montréal.
Corresponding author: Sylvie D. Lambert, N, PhD(c), School of Nursing, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2A7 ([email protected]).
Accepted for publication June 1, 2008.