Cancer patients, their caregivers and coping with loneliness

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 135-144

  Rokach, Ami ^a,b   Findler, Liora ^c   Chin, Jacqueline ^d   Lev, Shula ^e   Kollender, Yehuda ^e  

^a Center for Academic Studies   (Israel)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

cancer; coping; hospitalization, treatment; loneliness; patients

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LONELINESS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LONELINESS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874147360     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2012.689839     Document Type: Article

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