Health-related quality of life among community-dwelling patients with intractable neurological diseases and their caregivers in Japan

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-38

  Miyashita, Mitsunori ^a   Narita, Yugo ^b   Sakamoto, Aki ^c   Kawada, Norikazu ^d   Akiyama, Miki ^c   Kayama, Mami ^e   Suzukamo, Yoshimi ^a   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^f  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Matsusaka Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

^e ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

caregivers; neurology; quality of life; questionnaires

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SHORT FORM 36; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

EID: 79251534026     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02155.x     Document Type: Article

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