Mediating factors of coping process in parents of children with type 1 diabetes

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Fatemeh Oskouie1, Neda Mehrdad, Hossein Ebrahimi

  • 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran. h_ebrahimi43@yahoo.com.

Journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders
|May 16, 2013
PubMed
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