Quality of life (QoL) in relation to disease severity in Brazilian Parkinson's patients as measured using the WHOQOL-BREF

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-160

  Hirayama, Marcio Sussumu ^a   Gobbi, Sebastião ^a   Gobbi, Lilian Teresa Bucken ^a   Stella, Florindo ^a,b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Parkinson's disease (PD) severity; QoL; WHOQOL BREF

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BRAZIL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; ENERGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HOEHN YAHR SCALE; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOBILIZATION; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WORK CAPACITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENT SHORT FORM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38949118278     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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