Health-Related Quality of Life in Bereaved HIV-Positive Adults: Relationships Between HIV Symptoms, Grief, Social Support, and Axis II Indication

Health Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 249-257

  Hansen, Nathan B ^a   Vaughan, Ellen L ^a   Cavanaugh, Courtenay E ^a   Connell, Christian M ^a   Sikkema, Kathleen J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bereavement; HIV AIDS; personality disorders; quality of life; social support

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PSYCHOPATHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SYMPTOM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BEREAVEMENT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 64249169789     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013168     Document Type: Article

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