Specific fatigue-related items in self-rating depression scales do not bias an association between depression and fatigue in patients with coronary artery disease

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 527-529

  Bunevicius, Adomas ^a,b   Brozaitiene, Julija ^a   Stankus, Albinas ^a   Bunevicius, Robertas ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Depression; Fatigue; Instruments

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART REHABILITATION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL FATIGUE INVENTORY; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052720261     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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