Response rates in studies of couples coping with cancer: A systematic review

Health Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 845-852

  Dagan, Meirav ^a   Hagedoorn, Mariët ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Couples; Dyadic coping; Generalizability; Response rate; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUPLES RESPONSE RATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEOPLASM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NEOPLASMS; SPOUSES;

EID: 84905079445     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000013     Document Type: Article

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