Measuring parental grief after childhood cancer: Potential use of the SCL-90R

Death Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 277-287

  Gilliss, Catherine L ^a   Moore, Ida Marie ^b   Martinson, Ida M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030929167     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/074811897201976     Document Type: Article

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