Relationship between self-rated functional status and psychosocial stress in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 252-257

  Radanov, Bogdan P ^a   Schwarz, Hans A ^b   Frost, Stephan Andreas ^c   Augustiny, Klaus F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Bethesda Spital   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Health status; Psychological; Psychosocial stress; Quality of life; Rheumatoid arthritis; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030820178     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289143     Document Type: Article

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