Chronic Pain and Fatigue: Associations with Religion and Spirituality

BACKGROUND: Conditions with chronic, non-life-threatening pain and fatigue remain a challenge to treat, and are associated with high health care use. Understanding psychological and psychosocial contributing and coping factors, and working with patients to modify them, is one goal of management. An...

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Main Authors: Marilyn Baetz, Rudy Bowen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/263751
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