Fatigue in selected primary care settings: Sociodemographic and psychiatric correlates

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 164, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 585-588

  Hickie, Ian B ^a,c   Hooker, Ashleigh W ^d   Hadzi Pavlovic, Dusan ^b   Bennett, Barbara K ^a   Wilson, Andrew J ^c   Lloyd, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE HENRY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SYNDROME; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEADACHE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREVALENCE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030594512     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb122199.x     Document Type: Article

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