Psychiatric morbidity and low self-attentiveness in patients with environmental illness

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-55

  Hausteiner, Constanze ^a   Bornschein, Susannne ^a   Bickel, Horst ^a   Zilker, Thomas ^a   Förstl, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MORBIDITY; POLLUTION; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOMATIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF CONCEPT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0037247007     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200301000-00009     Document Type: Article

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