Association of alexithymic characteristics and posttraumatic stress responses following medical treatment for children with refractory hematological diseases

Psychological Reports

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 527-534

  Fukunishi, Isao ^a   Hirabayashi, Naotsugu ^b   Tsuruta, Toshihisa ^b   Asukai, Nozomu ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SICK ROLE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0035748395     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.89.3.527     Document Type: Article

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