Locke-Wallace Short Marital-Adjustment Test: psychometric evaluation in caregivers for persons with primary malignant brain tumor.

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Published in J Nurs Meas on January 01, 2013

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Yun Jiang, Lauren Terhorst, Heidi S Donovan, Jason M Weimer, Chien-Wen J Choi, Richard Schulz, Barbara Given, Paula R Sherwood

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