Quality of life and the related factors in spouses of veterans with chronic spinal cord injury

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ebrahimzadeh, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Shojaei, Bibi Soheila ^a   Golhasani Keshtan, Farideh ^a   Soltani Moghaddas, Seyed Hossein ^a   Fattahi, Asieh Sadat ^a   Mazloumi, Seyed Mahdi ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Caregiver; Iran; Iran Iraq war; Quality of life; Spinal cord injury; Spouses; Veteran

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CAREGIVER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPOUSE; VETERAN;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPOUSES; VETERANS;

EID: 84875029135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-11-48     Document Type: Article

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