Functional impairment related to painful physical symptoms in patients with generalized anxiety disorder with or without comorbid major depressive disorder: Post hoc analysis of a cross-sectional study

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Romera, Irene ^a   Montejo, Ángel L ^b   Caballero, Fernando ^c   Caballero, Luis ^d   Arbesú, José ^e   Polavieja, Pepa ^a   Desaiah, Durisala ^f   Gilaberte, Inmaculada ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c Servicio Madrileño de Salud Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^e Centro de Salud La Eria   (Spain)

^f ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PAIN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SHEEHAN DISABILITY SCALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ANXIETY DISORDER; DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN;

EID: 79954624561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-69     Document Type: Article

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