The most popular terms for medically unexplained symptoms: The views of CFS patients

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 420-426

  Picariello, Federica ^a,b   Ali, Sheila ^b   Moss Morris, Rona ^a   Chalder, Trudie ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFS; Diagnosis; Illness perceptions; Labels; MUS; Nomenclature; Stigma; Terminology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOM; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; SELF REPORT; STIGMA; SYMPTOM; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; NOMENCLATURE; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STEREOTYPING;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; STEREOTYPING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84925846314     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.02.013     Document Type: Article

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