Caregiver and patient marital satisfaction and affect following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A prospective, longitudinal investigation

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-253

  Langer, Shelby ^a,b   Abrams, Janet ^a,b   Syrjala, Karen ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYADIC ADJUSTMENT SCALE; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAREGIVERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0037393926     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.633     Document Type: Article

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