Distress in Fatally and Chronically Ill Children: Methodological Note.

Lewis, Susan; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ259211

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Publication Date: 1981

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Distress in Fatally and Chronically Ill Children: Methodological Note.

Lewis, Susan; And Others

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v12 n4 p293-306 1981-82

Assessed personality functioning in 19 fatally and chronically ill outpatient children. Found important differences in measures of distress that are thought to be roughly the same. Suggests the most common empirical methods are poorly fitted to the task of understanding the distress of fatally or chronically ill children. (Author/JAC)

Descriptors: Affective Measures, Anxiety, Children, Coping, Death, Emotional Adjustment, Personality Measures, Research Methodology, Stress Variables

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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