Health Risk Behaviors in Parentally Bereaved Youth
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Health risk behaviors in parentally bereaved youth.
OBJECTIVE To investigate whether parentally bereaved offspring are more likely to engage in health risk behaviors than nonbereaved control offspring. DESIGN Controlled population-based study. SETTING Bereaved families were recruited from coroner records and by advertisement. Control families were recruited using random-digit dialing and by advertisement. PARTICIPANTS At 9.0 months after t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1072-4710
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.101