Health-related quality of life and comorbidity among older women veterans in the United States

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2749-2756

  Der Martirosian, Claudia ^a   Cordasco, Kristina M ^a,b,c   Washington, Donna L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Health related quality of life (HRQOL); Older women veterans; VA non users; VA users

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84892726634     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-013-0424-7     Document Type: Article

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