Living with scleroderma: Patients' perspectives, a phenomenological study

Rheumatology International

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3573-3579

  Cinar, Fatma Ilknur ^a   Unver, Vesile ^a   Yilmaz, Sedat ^a   Cinar, Muhammet ^a   Yilmaz, Fatma ^a   Simsek, Ismail ^a   Erdem, Hakan ^a   Pay, Salih ^a   Dinc, Ayhan ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Phenomenological study; Rare disease; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DYSPHAGIA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOOT EDEMA; HAND EDEMA; HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCLERODERMA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84872175098     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-011-2230-2     Document Type: Article

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