Stressful life-events and fatigue in a nonclinical sample

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 197, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 707-710

  Brown, Rhonda F ^a   Thorsteinsson, Einar B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Interpersonal stressors; Psychological distress; Stressful life events

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL STRESS; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 70349322569     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181b3af36     Document Type: Article

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