Posttraumatic stress disorder following myocardial infarction: Personality, coping, and trauma exposure characteristics

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 393-419

  Chung, Man Cheung ^a   Dennis, Ian ^b   Berger, Zoë ^c   Jones, Rupert ^d   Rudd, Hannah ^e  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coping; myocardial infarction; personality; posttraumatic stress

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COPE SCALE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 28; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; NEO FIVE FACTOR INVENTORY; NEUROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CHARACTER; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84863161613     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.42.4.e     Document Type: Article

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