Search for: [Abstract = "Objectives\: In years 2001\-2003, 54 inpatients treated at the Haematology Department of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow for de novo diagnosed acute leukemia, were under observation. A degree of depressive disorders, hopelessness, A. Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence and patients perceptions of the family functioning, in prospective, clinical trial were estimated. The aim of the study was\: first to analyze the corelations beetween psychological factors described above and the course of leucaemia, secondly to assess the stability of Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence \(SOC\) in acute and critical stress of diagnosis and chemotherapy in the first three months of acute leukemia and thirdly, to investigate the relationship between depression, hopelessness, Sense of Coherence, and family function perception of the patients with prognosis for 1\-year survival. Inclusion criteria\: males and females, age\: 18\-65, written, informed consent, de novo diagnosed acute leukemia \(myelogenous, lymphoblastic or biphenotype\), Karnofsky’s index\: at least 80 points on day of admission, no psychiatric disorders \(despite depression\) in anamnesis, ability to fill in self\-report instruments used in the study. Exclusion criteria\: withdrawal of informed consent, loss of the ability to fill in self\-report instruments, changes in primary hematological diagnosis, need for continuation of hematological"]

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