Negative illness perceptions associated with low mental and physical health status in general hospital outpatients in China

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 273-285

  Wu, Heng ^a,b,c   Zhao, Xudong ^b   Fritzsche, Kurt ^c   Salm, Florian ^c   Leonhart, Rainer ^d   Jing, Wei ^e   Yang, Jianzhong ^f   Schaefert, Rainer ^g  

^a TONGJI HOSPITAL OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tongji University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^f Red Cross Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; General hospital; Health status; Illness perception; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84897640243     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2013.802358     Document Type: Article

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