Intensive meditation for refractory pain and symptoms

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 627-631

  Goyal, Madhav ^a   Haythornthwaite, Jennifer ^a   Levine, David ^a   Becker, Diane ^a   Vaidya, Dhananjay ^a   Hill Briggs, Felicia ^a   Ford, Daniel ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BALTIMORE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954194037     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2009.0372     Document Type: Article

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