The Impact of Psychological Functioning upon Systemic Sclerosis Patients' Quality of Life

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 81-92

  Hyphantis, Thomas N ^a   Tsifetaki, Niki ^a   Siafaka, Vassiliki ^a   Voulgari, Paraskevi V ^a   Pappa, Christina ^a   Bai, Marina ^a   Palieraki, Kalliopi ^a   Venetsanopoulou, Aliki ^a   Mavreas, Venetsanos ^a   Drosos, Alexandros A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

ego mechanisms of defense; personality; psychological distress; quality of life; sense of coherence; systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 36849058265     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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