Quality of life and its associated factors among patients with two common types of chronic mental illness living in Kaohsiung City

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 482-490

  Huang, Rong Rong ^a   Chen, Yong Shing ^b   Chen, Cheng Chung ^a   Chou, Frank Huang Chih ^a,c   Su, Su Fang ^a   Chen, Ming Chao ^a   Kuo, Ming Hui ^a   Chang, Li Hsing ^a  

^a KAI SUAN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Saint Mary's Hospital Luodong   (Taiwan)

^c MEIHO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

12 item Short Form Health Survey; Caregiver Burden Scale; chronic mental illness; five item Brief Symptom Rating Scale; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CAREGIVER BURDEN SCALE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC MENTAL ILLNESS; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 12; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TAIWAN; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867530983     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2012.02380.x     Document Type: Article

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