Cultural meaning of quality of life: Perspectives of Brazilian burn patients

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 712-719

  Rossi, Lidia Aparecida ^a   Costa, Maria Cristina Silva ^a   Dantas, Rosana Spadoti ^a   Ciofi Silva, Caroline Lopes ^a   Lopes, Livia Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Burns; Culture; Ethnography; Quality of life; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BRAZIL; BURN PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENCE; INTERVIEW; LEISURE; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; WORK; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BURN; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAZIL; BURNS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350468865     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280802306257     Document Type: Article

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