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    Quality of life in couples living with Huntington’s disease: the role of patients’ and partners’ illness perceptions

    Research suggests that chronically ill patients and their partners perceive illness differently, and that these differences have a negative impact on patients’ quality of life (QoL). This study assessed whethe...

    A. A. Kaptein, M. Scharloo, D. I. Helder, L. Snoei in Quality of Life Research (2007)

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    Quality of life in adults following bone marrow transplantation during childhood

    Quality of life (QOL) was assessed in 22 young adults, 14 years – on average– after having received bone marrow transplantation (BMT) during childhood at the Leiden University Medical Center. All were disease-...

    D I Helder, B Bakker, P de Heer, F van der Veen in Bone Marrow Transplantation (2004)

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    Living with huntington’s disease: illness perceptions, co** mechanisms, and spouses’ quality of life

    Chronic illness not only affects the life of those suffering from Huntington’s disease but also threatens the quality of life (QOL) of their spouses. In this study, we focus on Huntington’s disease (HD). The i...

    D. I. Helder, A. A. Kaptein in International Journal of Behavioral Medici… (2002)