Diabetes Burden and Diabetes Distress: the Buffering Effect of Social Support

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 145-155

  Baek, Rachel N ^a   Tanenbaum, Molly L ^a   Gonzalez, Jeffrey S ^a,b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffering hypothesis; Diabetes related distress; Disease burden; Insulin; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893877393     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: 15324796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-013-9585-4     Document Type: Article

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