The heart patient and the recovery process. A review of the directions of research on social and psychological factors

Croog, Sydney H.; Levine, Sol; Lurie, Zifre

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“…Criteria used for assessment during this first year were death, major illness with hospitalization, associated disease, other diseases, return to work, level of compliance, patients' rating of their outcome, satisfaction levels, mood ratings and maintenance of pre-illness levels of activity. TTieir contribution to research in this area is substantial, as only a decade before they acknowledged the great difficulty of measurement and comparison in rehabilitation (Croog et al 1968) in one of the first reviews of research across many specialties.…”

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Assessment of recovery: with special reference to a study with post‐operative cardiac patients

Wilson‐Barnett

1981

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The recovery process is dependent on many psychological and physical factors. In this paper recovery refers to major, short-term illness often treated by surgery, which is not expected to result in permanent disability or handicap. Research reviewed which attempts to identify influences on recovery also shows how many patients are left with a degree of disability, usually for psychological reasons. It is suggested that the stress and impact of severe illness and surgery may have a long lasting, previously unrecognized effect. Nursing which studies the interaction of physical and psychological aspects of illness and care is seen as the most suitable discipline from which to assess recovery and identify risk factors. A study reported here with patients after coronary artery grafting, provides information on recovery and illustrates how many aspects of a patients' experience may help or hinder this process. Data is obtained from patients' interviews to give a wider, more humanistic evaluation of outcome than is usually employed for this type of surgery.

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Assessment of recovery: with special reference to a study with post‐operative cardiac patients

Wilson‐Barnett

1981

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…There is a vast experimental literature describing the personality characteristics of patients with those chronic illnesses thought to be caused in part by psychological factors: neurotic personality traits are said to characterize patients with such illnesses as heart disease (Croog et al 1968), rheumatoid arthritis (Moos, 1964) and pulmonary tuberculosis (Vernier et al 1961). Interpretation, however, is difficult since it is impossible to distinguish personality characteristics caused by the illness from those which preceded it.…”

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Some psychological concomitants of chronic bronchitis

Rutter

1977

Psychol. Med.

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SynopsisThirty chronic bronchitic patients with severe airways obstruction were individually matched with non-bronchitic controls from the general population. The 2 groups were compared using the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) to assess non-psychotic psychiatric disturbance, the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) to assess personality traits, and the Marlowe–Crowne (M–C) scale plus the L (Lie) scale of the EPI to assess social-desirability response set. Chronic bronchitic patients were both more psychiatrically disturbed and more neurotic in personality than were their matched controls; but there were no differences between the 2 groups on the personality trait of extraversion or on measure of social desirability response set. The results are discussed in the context of both chronic bronchitis specifically and chronic illness in general, and future investigations are proposed.

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“…As demonstrated by Nichols and Bogdonoff (2), social psychological and sociological conceptualizations of chronic illness can yield insights concerning the obstacles to recovery. This paper is an attempt to expand upon the statement by Nichols and Bogdonoff through a review of recent empirical research which pinpoints some of the specific variables which affect the behavior of patients with a variety of chronic conditions (3). These same variables might be expected to influence the results of L‐dopa therapy.…”

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Sociopsychological Obstacles to L‐Dopa Therapy That May Limit Effectiveness in Parkinsonism

Hyman

1972

J American Geriatrics Society

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Chronic illness produces changes in patients' self-conceptions and social relationships which may impair their level of functioning. L-dopa therapy is particularly relevant t o patients ill for some time with a disease believed by themselves and their associates t o be chronic. In parkinsonian patients, therefore, the effect of L-dopa on their level of functioning, as distinct from their symptoms, is likely to be inhibited by some of the social and psychological concomitants of chronic illness. The literature on these concomitants and on recovery from chronic illness indicates that functional recovery will be impeded if: 1) the patient considers himself to be impaired, devalued and stigmatized, and 2) his social environment is characterized by extreme social isolation or cohesion, a pessimistic prognosis on the part of others, or an illness-induced family restructuring which the relatives are loath

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The heart patient and the recovery process. A review of the directions of research on social and psychological factors

Cited by 75 publications

References 172 publications

Assessment of recovery: with special reference to a study with post‐operative cardiac patients

Assessment of recovery: with special reference to a study with post‐operative cardiac patients

Some psychological concomitants of chronic bronchitis

Sociopsychological Obstacles to L‐Dopa Therapy That May Limit Effectiveness in Parkinsonism

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