Pre-loss demographic and psychological predictors of complicated grief among relatives of terminally ill cancer patients

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 256-258

  Lombardo, Luigi ^a   Morelli, Emanuela ^a   Luciani, Massimiliano ^a   Bellizzi, Fernando ^a   Aceto, Paola ^a   Penco, Italo ^a   Lai, Carlo ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BEREAVEMENT RISK INDEX; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPLICATED GRIEF; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84862021139     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000336428     Document Type: Letter

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