Social support and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Greece

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-33

  Pitsilka, Despoina A ^a,b   Kafetsios, Konstantinos ^a,c   Niakas, Dimitris ^a  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Quality of life; Rheumatoid arthritis; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCOME; INTEGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUMBER OF SOCIAL ROLE; PATIENT ACTIVITY SCALE II; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF SOCIAL SUPPORT SCALE; RECIPROCITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL NETWORK INDEX; SOCIAL NETWORK SIZE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT ASSESSMENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COST OF ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84928701324     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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