Stroke patients' well-being as a function of caregiving spouses' helpful and unhelpful actions

Personal Relationships

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-184

  Clark, Sarah L ^a   Stephens, Mary Ann Parris ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0347833317     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1996.tb00110.x     Document Type: Article

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