Religion, spirituality, and health status in geriatric outpatients

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-53

  Daaleman, Timothy P ^a,b   Perera, Subashan ^c   Studenski, Stephanie A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatrics; Health status; Religion and medicine; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KANSAS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 2142705288     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.20     Document Type: Article

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