Three-Year Follow-Up after Presymptomatic Testing for Huntington's Disease in Tested Individuals and Partners

Health Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-35

  Tibben, Aad ^a,b   Timman, Reinier ^b   Bannink, Erna C ^b   Duivenvoorden, Hugo J ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Distress; Hopelessness; Huntington's disease; Intrusion; Partners

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTS; SPOUSES;

EID: 0030636102     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.16.1.20     Document Type: Article

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