Quality of life with vitiligo: Comparison of male and female muslim patients in Iran

Gender Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 124-130

  Borimnejad, Leili ^a   Parsa Yekta, Zohreh ^b   Nikbakht Nasrabadi, Alireza ^b   Firooz, Alireza ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dermatology Life Quality Index; quality of life; vitiligo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSLEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VITILIGO;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; ISLAM; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; VITILIGO;

EID: 33745959166     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1550-8579(06)80201-9     Document Type: Article

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