Psychosocial Factors in Outcomes of Heart Surgery: The Impact of Religious Involvement and Depressive Symptoms

Health Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-238

  Contrada, Richard J ^a   Goyal, Tanya M ^a,c   Cather, Corinne ^a,d,e   Rafalson, Luba ^a   Idler, Ellen L ^a   Krause, Tyrone J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Depressive symptoms; Heart surgery; Hospital length of stay; Prospective study; Religion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 2142653588     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.23.3.227     Document Type: Article

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