Psychological resilience and long-term distress in Swedish and Icelandic parents' adjustment to childhood cancer

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 373-380

  Gudmundsdottir, Eyglo ^a   Schirren, Maria ^b   Boman, Krister K ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER PATIENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; ICELAND; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER TUMOR; LONELINESS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL PSYCHOSOCIAL DISTRESS IN CANCER QUESTIONNAIRE; PARENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINOBLASTOMA; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952669917     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2010.489572     Document Type: Article

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