Grief after brain injury: A validation of the brain injury grief inventory (BIGI)

Illness Crisis and Loss

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-247

  Ruddle, Jean Anne ^a   Coetzer, B Rudi ^a,b   Vaughan, Frances L ^a,b  

^a BETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Grief; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844455691     PISSN: 10541373     EISSN: 15526968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105413730501300304     Document Type: Article

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