Adolescents' perceptions of psychosocial factors related to sickle cell disease.
12 adolescents with sickle cell disease rated psychosocial reactions to their disease. They had positive social and family relationships but had concerns about body development, self-confidence, being a burden on their families, and death.
Gentry
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA.
Varlik
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Dancer
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D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004644:Emotions; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006450:Hemoglobin SC Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent