Assessing the quality of life of the individual: The SEIQoL with a healthy and a gastroenterology unit population

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 749-759

  McGee, Hannah M ^a,b   O’Boyle, Ciaran A ^a,b   Hickey, Anne ^a,b   O’Malley, Kevin ^a,b   Joyce, C R B ^a,b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PEPTIC ULCER; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025771139     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291700022388     Document Type: Article

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