A systematic and conceptual review of posttraumatic stress in childhood cancer survivors and their parents

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 233-256

  Bruce, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer survivors; Parents; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Posttraumatic stress symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; APPLICATION SITE BURNING; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COMMON COLD SYMPTOM; CONSTIPATION; COORDINATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DYSPNEA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GROWTH DISORDER; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFERTILITY; JAUNDICE; LETHARGY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOUTH PAIN; NAUSEA; PAIN; PARENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SCAR; SKIN DEFECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASTE DISORDER; ULCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33646122427     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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