Identifying illness perception schemata and their association with depression and quality of life in cardiac patients.

The purpose of this paper is to identify groups of cardiac patients who share similar perceptions about their illness and to examine the relationships between these schemata and psychosocial outcomes such as quality of life and depression. A total of 190 cardiac patients with diagnoses of myocardial...

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Published in:Psychology, Health & Medicine Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 709 - 723
Main Authors: Le Grande, Michael R., Elliott, Peter C., Worcester, Marian U.C., Murphy, Barbara M., Goble, Alan J., Kugathasan, Vanessa, Sinha, Karan
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2012
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