Generic and illness-specific quality of life in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 417-436

  Hauschildt, Marit ^a   Jelinek, Lena ^a   Randjbar, Sarah ^a   Hottenrott, Birgit ^a   Moritz, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

illness specific problems; internet study; Obsessive compulsive disorder; OCD; quality of life; WHOQOL BREF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957228580     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465810000275     Document Type: Article

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