Personality and medical illness burden among older adults in primary care

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-282

  Chapman, Benjamin P ^a   Lyness, Jeffrey M ^a   Duberstein, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical illnesses; Older adults; Personality; Primary care

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG MISUSE; EDUCATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; NEW YORK; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34247544366     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3180313975     Document Type: Article

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