Emotional profiles of families with a heart-operated patient: a pilot study.
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.
Invernizzi
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Institute of Psychiatry, University of Milan, Italy.
Bressi
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C
Bertrando
P
P
Passerini
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A
Giannelli
A
A
Clerici
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M
Biglioli
P
P
Cazzullo
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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