Quality of life among parents of children with congenital heart disease, parents of children with other diseases and parents of healthy children

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 655-666

  Lawoko, S ^b   Soares, Joaquim J F ^a  

^a Unit of Mental Health   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Fathers; Mothers; Parents; Predictors; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENDER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0041829239     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025114331419     Document Type: Article

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