Barsky, Arthur J.; Cleary, Paul D.; Klerman, Gerald L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 34 (1992) 10, pp. 1147-1154
The aim of this study was to examine the relative contributions made by medical morbidity, psychiatric disorder, functional status, and hypochondrial attitudes to medical patients' opinions of their overall health status. The study was conducted in the general medical clinic of a large academic...