Coping strategies in parents of children with cancer

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 965-975

  Norberg, Annika Lindahl ^a,b   Lindblad, Frank ^a   Boman, Krister K ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coping; Paediatric cancer; Parental adjustment; Parental distress; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CANCER;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BONE TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TUMOR; LANGERHANS CELL; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS;

EID: 10044261710     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.06.030     Document Type: Article

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