title: The use of health diaries in the field of psychiatric illness in general practice.
abstract: The individual's response to the occurrence of symptoms is conditioned by a variety of non-medical factors, of both an enduring (e.g. personality attributes) and a changing nature (e.g. social support). The health diary provides a particularly appropriate method of studying the daily variations in health and illness behaviour which make up so much of the clinical content of general practice.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005190:Family; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment