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Illness perceptions and coping determine quality of life in COPD patients

BACKGROUND: A key goal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care is to improve patients’ quality of life (QoL). For outcomes such as QoL, illness perceptions and coping are important determinants. AIM: The primary aim was to assess the associations between illness perceptions, coping and...

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Autores principales: Tiemensma, Jitske, Gaab, Erin, Voorhaar, Maarten, Asijee, Guus, Kaptein, Adrian A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5003510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27601893
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S109227