What does the WHOQOL-Bref measure? Measurement overlap between quality of life and depressive symptomatology in chronic somatoform pain disorder

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-86

  Aigner, Martin ^a   Förster Streffleur, Sophie ^a   Prause, Wolfgang ^a   Freidl, Marion ^a   Weiss, Maria ^a   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Depression; Pain; Quality of life; Somatoform

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 33644582801     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0997-8     Document Type: Article

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