Roles and well-being among healthy women and women with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-198

  Coty, Mary Beth ^a   Wallston, Kenneth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment; Nursing; Questionnaires; Rheumatoid arthritis; Role conflict; Role imbalance; Role stress; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SATISFACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 54449092741     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04661.x     Document Type: Article

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