Depressive distress among the spouses of terminally III cancer patients

Cancer Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-30

  Siegel, Karolynn ^a   Karus, Daniel G ^a   Raveis, Victoria H ^a   Christ, Grace H ^b   Mesagno, Frances P ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

anticipatory grief; bereavement; caregiving; depression; spouses of cancer patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPOUSES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0030059595     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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