Anticipatory Grief among Close Relatives of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
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Anticipatory grief among close relatives of patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Several illnesses cause suffering and pre-death grief among close relatives, as in cancer and dementia. This might be the case also at Parkinson’s Disease (PD). We aimed at getting grief self-reports of relatives of PD patients using the same instrument (AGS) as in former grief studies to see similarities and differences. Anticipatory Grief Scale (AGS) and questions about background variables w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2328-7837
DOI: 10.11648/j.pbs.20140305.15