Family cohesion predicts long-term health and well-being after losing a parent to cancer as a teenager: A nationwide population-based study (IMAGE)

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Family cohesion predicts long-term health and well-being after losing a parent to cancer as a teenager: A nationwide population-based study

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Poor family cohesion the first year after losing a parent to cancer as a teenager was found to be associated with a greater risk for long-term psychological health-related problems among young adults who lost a parent to cancer 6–9 years earlier.

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Illustration by Dröfn Birgisdóttir (based on photos by Birgir Adalsteinsson, Rana Sawalha and Michael Dam, and used with their permission), CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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