A cross-sectional survey of quality of life in colostomates: a report from Iran

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mahjoubi, Bahar ^a   Mirzaei, Rezvan ^a   Azizi, Rasoul ^a   Jafarinia, Mehdi ^a   Zahedi Shoolami, Leila ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Colostomates; Iran; Quality of life; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; COLOSTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84869204389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-136     Document Type: Article

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