Social Support and health in diabetes patients: An observational study in six european countries in an era of austerity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Koetsenruijter, Jan ^a   Van Lieshout, Jan ^a   Lionis, Christos ^b   Portillo, Maria Carmen ^c   Vassilev, Ivo ^d   Todorova, Elka ^e   Foss, Christina ^f   Gil, Manuel Serrano ^g   Knutsen, Ingrid Ruud ^f   Angelaki, Agapi ^b   Mujika, Agurtzane ^c   Roukova, Poli ^f   Kennedy, Anne ^d   Rogers, Anne ^d   Wensing, Michel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY   (Bulgaria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g Murcia Region (FFIS)   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORWAY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN; SUPPORT GROUP; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; LIFESTYLE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84943138198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135079     Document Type: Article

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