Symptom Prevalence and Clustering of Symptoms in People Living with Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-344

  Lang, Carolyn A ^a   Conrad, Sue ^a   Garrett, Lyndall ^a   Battistutta, Diana ^a   Cooksley, W Graham E ^a   Dunne, Michael P ^a   Macdonald, Graeme A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C; quality of life; symptom clusters; symptom prevalence; symptom severity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSESTHESIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PAIN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDER; SWEATING; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33646487036     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2005.08.016     Document Type: Article

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