Parents' intellectual and emotional awareness of their child's impending death to cancer: a population-based long-term follow-up study

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 706-714

  Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur ^a,c   Kreicbergs, Ulrika ^a,b,d   Hauksdóttir, Arna ^a   Hunt, Hayley ^a,e   Onelöv, Erik ^a   Henter, Jan Inge ^b   Steineck, Gunnar ^a,f  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; BEREAVEMENT; CANCER MORTALITY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MEDICAL LEAVE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATERNAL ATTITUDE; PATIENT INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TERMINALLY ILL; TIME FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 34547450735     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(07)70209-7     Document Type: Article

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