The Marital Relationship and Health in Women with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome: Views of Wives and Husbands

Nursing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 138-146

  Goodwin, Sheila S ^a  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0031133490     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-199705000-00004     Document Type: Article

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