Coping with myocardial infarction: Evaluation of a coping questionnaire

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 792-800

  Brink, Eva ^a,b   Persson, Lars Olof ^b   Karlson, Björn W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coping; Myocardial infarction; Psychometric evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449657224     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2008.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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