Stress associated with asbestosis: The trauma of waiting for death

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 126-128

  Barak, Yoram ^a   Achiron, Anat ^b   Rotstein, Zeev ^b   Elizur, Avner ^a   Noy, Shlomo ^b  

^a ABARBANEL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANHEDONIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; NIGHTMARE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER;

AGED; ASBESTOSIS; FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0031969857     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1611(199803/04)7:2<126::AID-PON291>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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