Religious coping and health status in medically ill hospitalized older adults

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 513-521

  Koenig, Harold G ^a   Pargament, Kenneth I ^b   Nielsen, Julie ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031665197     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199809000-00001     Document Type: Article

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