Women's experience of sle-related fatigue: A focus group interview study

Rheumatology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1935-1942

  Pettersson, Susanne ^a,b   Möller, Sonia ^b   Svenungsson, Elisabet ^a,b   Gunnarsson, Iva ^a,b   Welin Henriksson, Elisabet ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Focus groups; Qualitative research; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHLOROQUINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; FAMILY LIFE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALAR RASH; MOUTH ULCER; NEPHRITIS; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERICARDITIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; WOMEN;

EID: 77956793026     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq174     Document Type: Article

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