Coping Strategies and Life Satisfaction in Subgrouped Fibromyalgia Patients

Biological Research For Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 193-202

  Raak, Ragnhild ^a   Hurtig, Ingrid ^a   Wahren, Lis Karin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

coping; fibromyalgia subgroups; life satisfaction; thermal pain

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEAT; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SATISFACTION; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEAT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037271042     PISSN: 10998004     EISSN: 15524175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1099800402239622     Document Type: Article

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