Relationships between demographic variables and quality of life in a population of Dutch adult psychiatric outpatients

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 588-594

  Trompenaars, Fons J ^a,b   Masthoff, E D ^a   Van Heck, G L ^c   Hodiamont, P P ^c   De Vries, J ^c  

^a GGZ Midden Brabant   (Netherlands)

^b Ministerie van Justitie   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Demographics; Psychiatric outpatients; Quality of life; WHOQOL Bref

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS;

EID: 24044554220     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0946-0     Document Type: Article

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