Psychological morbidity and problems of daily living in people with visual loss and diabetes: Do they differ from people without diabetes?

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1110-1116

  Robertson, N ^a   Burden, M L ^b,c   Burden, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Heart of Birmingham tPCT   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aids; Anxiety; Blind; Coping; Depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; BLINDNESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; REGISTER; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; BLINDNESS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISION, LOW;

EID: 33748744237     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01970.x     Document Type: Article

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