Health-related quality of life of irritable bowel syndrome patients in different cultural settings

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Faresjö, Åshild ^a   Anastasiou, Foteini ^b   Lionis, Christos ^b   Johansson, Saga ^c,e   Wallander, Mari Ann ^d,e   Faresjö, Tomas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SWEDEN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SWEDEN;

EID: 33645993308     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-21     Document Type: Article

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