Post-traumatic growth among an ethnically diverse sample of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2235-2244

  Arpawong, T Em ^a   Oland, Alyssa ^b   Milam, Joel E ^a   Ruccione, Kathleen ^a,b   Meeske, Kathleen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent young adults; childhood cancer survivors; ethnicity; oncology; post traumatic growth; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATERNAL ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CAUCASIAN; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885294230     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3286     Document Type: Article

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