Relations between psychological avoidance, symptom severity and embarrassment in essential tremor
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Relations between psychological avoidance, symptom severity and embarrassment in essential tremor.
Research with community- and clinic-based samples of essential tremor (ET) sufferers has identified embarrassment as a common consequence of the condition, leading to social anxiety and avoidance. We sought to ascertain whether psychological avoidance was related to embarrassment in ET, and whether any such relation was independent of symptom severity. Establishing whether psychological avoidan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chronic Illness
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1742-3953,1745-9206
DOI: 10.1177/1742395314544554