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SUBMITTER: Pesut DP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4233026 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pesut Dragica P DP Bursuc Bogdana N BN Bulajic Milica V MV Solovic Ivan I Kruczak Katarzyna K Duarte Raquel R Sorete-Arbore Adriana A Raileanu Marinela M Strambu Irina I Nagorni-Obradovic Ljudmila L Adzic Tatjana T Lazic Zorica Z Zlatev-Ionescu Maria M Bhagyabati Sorokhaibam S Singh Irom Ibungo II Srivastava Govind Narayan GN
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How patients relate to the experience of their illness has a direct impact over their behavior. We aimed to assess illness perception in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by means of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ) in correlation with patients' demographic features and clinical TB score. Our observational questionnaire based study included series of consecutive TB patients enrolled in several countries from October 2008 to January 2011 with 167 valid questionnaires anal ...[more]