Post-traumatic growth among cardiac outpatients: Degree comparison with other chronic illness samples and correlates

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1049-1063

  Leung, Yvonne W ^a   Gravely Witte, Shannon ^a   MacPherson, Alison ^a   Irvine, Jane ^a   Stewart, Donna E ^b   Grace, Sherry L ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

benefit finding; cardiac patients; coronary artery disease; correlates; depressive symptoms; post traumatic growth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77957551781     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: 14617277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359105309360577     Document Type: Article

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