Brief report: Depressive symptoms and quality of life in adolescents with b-thalassaemia

Journal of Adolescence

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 213-216

  Mikelli, Anna ^a   Tsiantis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFORMITY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; IRON CHELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 1842504473     PISSN: 01401971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2003.11.011     Document Type: Article

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