Coping patterns and psychosocial distress in female partners of prostate cancer patients

Psychosomatics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-382

  Couper, Jeremy W ^a   Bloch, Sidney ^b   Love, Anthony ^b   Duchesne, Gillian ^b   MacVean, Michelle ^b   Kissane, David ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; FEMALE PARTNER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MARRIAGE; METASTASIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 69249158719     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.50.4.375     Document Type: Article

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