Meanings of Feeling Well for Women With Fibromyalgia

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 694-706

  Juuso, Päivi ^a   Skär, Lisa ^a   Olsson, Malin ^a   Söderberg, Siv ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84880350830     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2012.736573     Document Type: Article

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