Changes and predictors of change in objective and subjective quality of life: Multiwave follow-up study in community psychiatric practice

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 187, Issue AUG., 2005, Pages 121-130

  Ruggeri, Mirella ^a   Nosè, Michela ^a   Bonetto, Chiara ^a   Cristofalo, Doriana ^a   Lasalvia, Antonio ^a   Salvi, Giovanni ^a   Stefani, Benedetta ^a   Malchiodi, Francesca ^a   Tansella, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SALARY; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 23744470883     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.187.2.121     Document Type: Article

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