The INSPIRE study: Do personality traits predict general quality of life (short form-36) in distressed patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease?

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1505-1513

  Boye, Birgitte ^a,b   Lundin, Knut E A ^a,b   Leganger, Siv ^b   Mokleby, Kjell ^b   Jantschek, Günter ^c   Jantschek, Ingrid ^c   Kunzendorf, Sebastian ^c   Benninghoven, Dieter ^c   Sharpe, Michael ^d   Wilhelmsen, Ingvard ^e,f   Blomhoff, Svein ^b   Malt, Ulrik F ^a,b   Jahnsen, Jørgen ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f Haraldsplass Deaconal Hospital   (Norway)

^g AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Personality; Quality of life; Short form 36; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL STATUS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 56749179465     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520802321196     Document Type: Article

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