Somatization is associated with physical health-related quality of life independent of anxiety and depression in cancer, glaucoma and rheumatological disorders

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1029-1042

  Hyphantis, Thomas ^a,b   Tomenson, Barbara ^b   Paika, Vassiliki ^a   Almyroudi, Augoustina ^a   Pappa, Chrisavgi ^c   Tsifetaki, Niki ^c   Voulgari, Paraskevi V ^c   Drosos, Alexandros A ^c   Pavlidis, Nicholas ^c   Creed, Francis ^b  

^a Medical School

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer; Glaucoma; Liaison psychiatry; Medical illness; Rheumatologic disease; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SOMATIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

AGED; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70349251146     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-009-9527-6     Document Type: Article

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