Psychological Morbidity and Support

Alice Polomeni; Enrique Moreno; Frank Schulz-Kindermann

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02278-5_30

Psychological Morbidity and Support

Review

In: The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies [Internet]. 7th edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2019. Chapter 30.

Authors

Alice Polomeni¹, Enrique Moreno², Frank Schulz-Kindermann³

Book Editors

Enric Carreras¹, Carlo Dufour², Mohamad Mohty³, Nicolaus Kröger⁴

Affiliations

¹ Service d’Hématologie clinique et thérapie cellulaire, Hôpital Saint Antoine - Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
² Department of Psychology, Asleuval (Valencian Association of Leukemia), Valencia, Spain
³ Pychooncological Outpatient Department, Institute of Medical Psychology, University Cancer Center Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Book Affiliations

¹ Spanish Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Josep Carreras Foundation and Leukemia Research Institute, Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
² Hematology Unit, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Geneva, Switzerland
³ Department of Hematology, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
⁴ Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppend, Hamburg, Germany

Excerpt

Allo-HSCT is associated with significant physical and psychological morbidity that may have a negative impact on patients’ and on their relatives’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) (Majhail and Rizzo 2013).

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