Gender analyses of nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis

Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 35-46

  Buchanan, Robert J ^a   Wang, Suojin ^a   Ju, Hyunsu ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NURSING HOME; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NURSING HOMES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0038827198     PISSN: 15237036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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