Exploring the Link between religious attitudes and subjective well-being in chronic pain patients

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 393-404

  Dezutter, Jessie ^a   Luyckx, Koen ^a   Büssing, Arndt ^a   Hutsebaut, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic pain patients; Religion; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SYMBOLISM; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SICK ROLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76949090121     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.39.4.d     Document Type: Article

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