Caregiving stress, immune function, and health: Implications for research with parents of medically fragile children

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 257-276

  Kuster, Patricia A ^a   Merkle, Carrie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; CHILD CARE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DISABILITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PARENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 12144274845     PISSN: 01460862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01460860490884165     Document Type: Review

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