• DOI:10.3109/02770900903560217
Corpus ID: 7563443

The Role of Alexithymia in Quality of Life and Health Care Use in Asthma

@article{Vzquez2010TheRO,
  title={The Role of Alexithymia in Quality of Life and Health Care Use in Asthma},
  author={I. V{\'a}zquez and E. S{\'a}ndez and Beatriz Gonz{\'a}lez-Freire and Esther Romero-Frais and M. Blanco-Aparicio and H. Verea-Hernando},
  journal={Journal of Asthma},
  year={2010},
  volume={47},
  pages={797 - 804}
}

I. Vázquez, E. Sández, +3 authors H. Verea-Hernando

Published 2010

Medicine

Journal of Asthma

Background. Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in perceiving and expressing emotions. The relationship between alexithymia and health outcomes in asthma has been shown in a scarce number of studies, in which alexithymia has been considered as an homogeneous construct and the confounding potential effect of anxiety and depression has not been controlled for. Objectives. To determine the relationship between each of the three dimensions of alexithymia as assessed… CONTINUE READING

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