Latent variable models of functional somatic distress

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 606-615

  Robbins, James M ^a   Kirmayer, Laurence J ^b   Hemami, Shahla ^b  

^a ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; FAMILY MEDICINE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRITABLE COLON; SOMATIZATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0030666905     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199710000-00003     Document Type: Article

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