Spirituality and adaptive coping styles in German patients with chronic diseases in a CAM Health Care Setting

Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Büssing, Arndt ^a   Keller, Nadja ^b   Michalsen, Andreas ^b   Moebus, Susanne ^b   Dobos, Gustav ^b   Ostermann, Thomas ^a   Matthiessen, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic diseases; Complementary and alternative medicine; Coping; Meaning and purpose; Patients; Questionnaires; Religion and medicine; Spirituality and religion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RELIGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33646336874     PISSN: 15533840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3840.1049     Document Type: Article

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