Social support and life satisfaction in spinal cord injury during and up to one year after inpatient rehabilitation

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-271

  Van Leeuwen, Christel M C ^a   Post, Marcel W M ^a   Van Asbeck, Floris W A ^a   Van Der Woude, Lucas H V ^b   De Groot, Sonja ^c   Lindeman, Eline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Rehabilitation Center Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Life satisfaction; Prospective study; Rehabilitation; Social support; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950184246     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0502     Document Type: Article

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