Impact of prior traumatic life events on parental early stage reactions following a child's cancer.

BACKGROUND: In pediatric oncology, effective clinic-based management of acute and long-term distress in families calls for investigation of determinants of parents' psychological response to the child's cancer. We examined the relationship between parents' prior exposure to traumatic...

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Main Authors: Krister K Boman, Ylva Kjällander, Staffan Eksborg, Jeremy Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3597714?pdf=render