Study: Children Experience Differing Changes One Year After a Sibling's Death from Cancer

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 10:00 in Psychology & Sociology

The majority of children experience personal changes and changes in relationships one year after their sibling has died from cancer; however, positive and negative changes are not universal. These are the findings from the first study - published online November 3, 2011 in Cancer Nursing - to examine changes in siblings after the death of a brother or sister to cancer from three different perspectives: mothers, fathers and siblings.

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