The relationship between illness severity, sociodemographic factors, general self-concept, and illness-specific attitude in Swedish adolescents with epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 375-382

  Räty, Lena K A ^a   Söderfeldt, Birgitta A ^b   Larsson, Gerry ^c   Wilde Larsson, Bodil M ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Epilepsy; Illness attitude; Illness Severity Scale; Self concept; Young people

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICK ROLE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 3543072281     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

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