Type D personality is associated with increased anxiety and depressive symptoms in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator and their partners

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 714-719

  Pedersen, Susanne S ^a,b   Van Domburg, Ron T ^b   Theuns, Dominic A M J ^b   Jordaens, Luc ^b   Erdman, Ruud A M ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coronary artery disease; Depressive symptoms; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Type D personality

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CORONARY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NETHERLANDS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 4944252134     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000132874.52202.21     Document Type: Article

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