Teaching coping skills enhances quality of life more than peer support: Results of a randomized trial with multiple sclerosis patients

Health Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 211-220

  Schwartz, Carolyn E ^a  

^a FRONTIER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Multiple sclerosis; Quality of life; Randomized trial; Response shift; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PEER GROUP; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEACHING;

EID: 0032936924     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.18.3.211     Document Type: Article

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