title: Emotional profiles of families with a heart-operated patient: a pilot study.
abstract: Family interaction is a basic factor in determining the quality of life of patients undergoing heart surgery. The present study investigates the emotional attitudes in the relatives of 10 heart-operated patients. The results indicate that a high amount of relatives' emotional overinvolvement and warmth tends toward a correlation with lower anxiety and depression scores, and with a better 12-month outcome of the illness.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, University of Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Invernizzi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bressi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bertrando
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Passerini
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giannelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clerici
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Biglioli
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cazzullo
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011788:Quality of Life; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012803:Sick Role