Background: The eight-item Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire is used as a screening instrument in physical therapy to assess mental defeat in patients with acute low back pain, besides patient ...

Effectiveness in preventing or treating serious medical conditions typically requires patients to follow treatment plans such as medication, exercise or diet, but about 50 percent of patients fail to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Worse pain was linked with lower disease understanding and coping with “comforting cognitions.” 38% of patients ...

In a cross-sectional study of patients with alopecia areata (AA), illness perceptions and stigma were found to be associated with worse quality of life and increased levels of anxiety and depression ...

In a recent study posted to medRxiv*, a team of researchers characterized individual-level illness perception, both cognitive and emotional, following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: ...

Development of a functional assessment of side-effects to therapy (FAST) questionnaire to assess dermatology-related quality of life in patients treated with EGFR inhibitors (EGFRI): The FAST-EGFRI No ...

Quality of Life Research, Vol. 30, No. 3 (March 2021), pp. 721-728 (8 pages) Purpose At present, it is not clear about the influence of health-promoting lifestyle, aging perceptions, social support, ...