Coping strategies and the request for a consultation on complementary and alternative medicine - A cross-sectional survey of patients in a psychosomatic and three medical departments of a German University Hospital

Forschende Komplementarmedizin und Klassische Naturheilkunde

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 207-211

  Huber, R ^a   Ludtke R ^b   Beiser, I ^a   Koch, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Karl und Veronica Carstens Stiftung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coping; Health locus of control; University hospital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 4644338329     PISSN: 14247364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080556     Document Type: Article

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