Quality of life and psychosocial adjustment to burn injury: Social functioning, body image, and health policy perspectives

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 539-548

  Corry, Nida ^a   Pruzinsky, Thomas ^b   Rumsey, Nichola ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERCARE; BODY IMAGE; BURN; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BODY IMAGE; BURNS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450192685     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540260903343901     Document Type: Review

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