Couples' ratings of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients' quality of life

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-48

  Low, Gail ^a   Gutman, Gloria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping with COPD; Couples' quality of life perceptions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPOUSE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPOUSES;

EID: 0037318261     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054773802238739     Document Type: Article

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