Distressed partners and caregivers do not recover easily: Adjustment trajectories among partners and caregivers of cancer survivors

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 225-235

  Lambert, Sylvie D ^a   Jones, Bobby L ^b   Girgis, Afaf ^a   Lecathelinais, Christophe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Hunter New England Population Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Caregivers; Depression; Longitudinal study; Psychological adjustment; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; CAREGIVERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84866729772     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-012-9385-2     Document Type: Article

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