Journal article
The meaning of illness questionnaire: Further evidence for its reliability and validity
Abstract
Cognitive appraisal processes or the meaning a person gives a stressful event are believed to mediate an individual's reaction to an event and, as such, have been demonstrated to explain adjustment to illness. The purpose of this paper is to test this cognitive as well as other social and illness variables to explain the variance in a person's adjustment to chronic pain. Two hundred and twenty-two patients, who were randomly selected from an …
Authors
Weir R; Browne G; Roberts J; Tunks E; Gafni A
Journal
Pain, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 377–386
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
September 1994
DOI
10.1016/0304-3959(94)90132-5
ISSN
0304-3959