Psychiatric diagnoses in patients with fibromyalgia are related to health care-seeking behavior rather than to illness

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 436-445

  Aaron, Leslie A ^a,b   Bradley, Laurence A ^a   Alarcón, Graciela S ^a   Alexander, Ronald W ^a   Triana Alexander, Mireya ^a   Martin, Michelle Y ^a   Alberts, Kristin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSTHYMIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PANIC; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SOMATIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANXIETY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0029995204     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780390311     Document Type: Article

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