Complicated grief symptoms in caregivers of persons with lung cancer: The role of family conflict, intrapsychic strains, and hospice utilization

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-220

  Kramer, Betty J ^a   Kavanaugh, Melinda ^a   Trentham Dietz, Amy ^a   Walsh, Matthew ^a   Yonker, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; CONFLICT; FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551666719     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.62.3.a     Document Type: Article

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