Psychological adjustment one year after the diagnosis of breast cancer: A prototype study of delayed post-traumatic stress disorder

British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 350-363

  Elklit, Ask ^a   Blum, Alon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80054814734     PISSN: 01446657     EISSN: 20448260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466510X527676     Document Type: Article

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