Awareness of Breathing: The Structure of Language Descriptors of Respiratory Sensations

Health Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 122-127

  Petersen, Sibylle ^a   Orth, Bernhard ^a   Ritz, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dyspnea; respiratory sensation; symptom perception; verbal descriptors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CLIMBING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERINFLATION; HYPERVENTILATION; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SENSATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; MALE; RESPIRATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38949158800     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.27.1.122     Document Type: Article

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