Assessment of psychosocial adjustment in Chinese unrelated bone marrow donors

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 903-910

  Molassiotis, A ^a   Holroyd, E ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bone marrow; Chinese; Donor; Unrelated

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0032708804     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702000     Document Type: Article

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