Psychosocial adjustment among pediatric cancer patients and their parents

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-81

  Chao, Chia Chen ^a   Chen, Sue Huei ^b   Wang, Chia Yu ^b   Wu, Yin Chang ^b   Yeh, Chao Hsing ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Children Depression Inventory (CDI); Depression; Parents; Pediatric cancer patients; Psychosocial adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MOOD; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037324349     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01082.x     Document Type: Article

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