Psychological morbidity, burden, and the mediating effect of social support in adult children caregivers of oncological patients undergoing chemotherapy

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1587-1593

  Teixeira, Ricardo J ^a   Pereira, Maria Graça ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

caregiving burden; oncology; parental cancer; psychological morbidity; social support

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BURDEN ASSESSMENT SCALE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PORTUGAL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; SATISFACTION WITH SOCIAL SUPPORT SCALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

CAREGIVING BURDEN; ONCOLOGY; PARENTAL CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL MORBIDITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ADULT CHILDREN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879991709     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3173     Document Type: Article

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