Quality of Life, Personality and Use of Pain Medication in Patients with Chronic Back Pain

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 401-411

  Cvijetic, Selma ^a   Bobic, Jasminka ^a   Grazio, Simeon ^b   Uremovic, Melita ^c   Nemcic, Tomislav ^b   Krapac, Ladislav ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

^b SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^c University of Applied Sciences Lavoslav Ruzicka   (Croatia)

^d Velika Gorica   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Chronic back pain; Neuroticism; Pain medication; Personality; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899943957     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-013-9219-9     Document Type: Article

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