Predictors of quality of life in hospitalized cardiac patients

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 982-987

  Bruscia, Kenneth ^a   Shultis, Carol ^a   Dennery, Karen ^a   Dileo, Cheryl ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac patients; Quality of life; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 54949134516     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: 14617277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359105308097960     Document Type: Article

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