Psychological distress and coping in breast cancer patients and healthy women whose parents survived the Holocaust

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 635-646

  Baider, Lea ^a   Goldzweig, Gil ^b   Ever Hadani, Pnina ^c   Peretz, Tamar ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Healthy women; Oncology; Second generation Holocaust; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PARENTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33746273716     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1010     Document Type: Article

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