"They didn't tell us, they made us work it out ourselves": Patient perspectives of a cognitive-behavioral program for rheumatoid arthritis fatigue

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 494-501

  Dures, E ^a   Kitchen, K ^b   Almeida, C ^a   Ambler, N ^c   Cliss, A ^a   Hammond, A ^d   Knops, B ^c   Morris, M ^a   Swinkels, A ^a   Hewlett, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859741011     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21562     Document Type: Article

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