Psychosocial dimensions of family burden among two groups of carers looking after psychiatric patients

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 104-108

  Bibou Nakou, I ^a,b   Dikaiou, M ^a   Bairactaris, C ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC PATIENT; CONTROL; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031025299     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00788928     Document Type: Article

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