A controlled pilot study of stress management training of elderly patients with congestive heart failure

Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 168-174

  Luskin, Frederic ^a   Reitz, Megan ^a   Newell, Kathryn ^a   Quinn, Thomas Gregory ^a   Haskell, William ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PILOT STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SELF CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0036753193     PISSN: 1520037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1520.037x.2002.01029.x     Document Type: Article

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