title: The distressed (Type D) personality. A risk marker for poor health outcomes in ICD patients.
abstract: The distressed (Type D) personality is an emerging risk marker for poor health outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. Patients with this personality disposition are typified by a general propensity to experience psychological distress. The contribution focuses on the impact of Type D personality on psychological distress, quality of life, ventricular tachyarrhythmias, and mortality in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patients and examines the relative influence of this vulnerability factor compared to ICD shocks and markers of disease severity in relation to these outcomes.
authors.affiliation: CoRPS - Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic diseases, Department of Medical Psychology, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 90153, 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. s.s.pedersen@uvt.nl
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Schiffer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011379:Prognosis; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy