Illness-Specific Catastrophic Thinking and Overperception in Asthma

Health Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-99

  De Peuter, Steven ^a   Lemaigre, Valentine ^b   Van Diest, Ilse ^a   Van den Bergh, Omer ^a  

^a Box 3726   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

anxiety; asthma; catastrophizing; panic fear; symptom perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; SYMPTOM; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ASTHMA; BELGIUM; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING;

EID: 38949193559     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.27.1.93     Document Type: Article

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