Psychological well-being and posttraumatic growth in caregivers of cancer patients

Claudia Cormio, Francesca Romito, Giovanna Viscanti, Marina Turaccio, Vito Lorusso, Vittorio Mattioli

Frontiers in Psychology · 2014 · 75 citations · 47 references

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Abstract

RESULTS of the present study show that caregivers of cancer patients may experience post-traumatic growth as the result of their caregiver role. It would be interesting to investigate in future research which factor may mediate the presence of post-traumatic growth.

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