Evaluating depression in a sample of children and adolescents with cancer in Greece

International Nursing Review

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 314-319

  Matziou, V ^a,d   Perdikaris, P ^b   Galanis, P ^a   Dousis, E ^c   Tzoumakas, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Department of Paediatric Oncology   (Greece)

^c 'Aghia Sophia' General Children's Hospital   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cancer; Children; Children's Depression Inventory; Depression; Malignancies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 50249144655     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2008.00606.x     Document Type: Article

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