Health-related quality of life and influencing factors among rural left-behind wives in Liuyang, China

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yi, Jinyao ^a,b   Zhong, Bin ^a,b   Yao, Shuqiao ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Health related quality of life; Left behind wives; Rural area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHINA; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RURAL AREA; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; UNEMPLOYMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHINA; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84900834111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-14-67     Document Type: Article

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