Reliance on God's help as a measure of intrinsic religiosity in healthy elderly and patients with chronic diseases. correlations with health-related quality of life?

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-90

  Büssing, Arndt ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a   Ostermann, Thomas ^a   Matthiessen, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic diseases; Coping; Health related quality of life; Intrinsic religiosity; Patients; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350070861     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-009-9068-8     Document Type: Article

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