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Psychological adjustment after cardiac transplantation
Medical Journal of Australia, 1988Cardiac transplantation is viable therapeutic alternative for patients with end-stage heart disease, which offers a favourable short- and medium-term prognosis. The survival has improved from 20% of patients who survived at one year after transplantation in the 1960s to the present figures of 80%-85% of patients who are alive at one year, and 50%-70 ...
B M, Jones +7 more
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Health Psychology: Psychological Adjustment to Chronic Disease
Annual Review of Psychology, 2007Abstract Chronic diseases carry important psychological and social consequences that demand significant psychological adjustment. The literature is providing increasingly nuanced conceptualizations of adjustment, demonstrating that the experience of chronic disease necessitates adaptation in multiple life domains.
Annette L, Stanton +2 more
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Psychological adjustment to systemic sclerosis
Arthritis & Rheumatism, 1996AbstractObjective. To examine the role of demographic, disability, appraisal, and coping variables in predicting psychological adjustment in individuals with systemic sclerosis.Methods. Two hundred forty‐two individuals with systemic sclerosis (SSc; diffuse and limited) were surveyed by mail.
V L, Malcarne, H L, Greenbergs
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PSYCHOLOGIC ADJUSTMENTS TO RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Nursing Clinics of North America, 1994Reconstructive surgery carries with it both physical and psychologic manifestations. The plastic surgery nurse must be aware of the functional, physical, and psychologic needs of the patient. This article explores issues associated with body image and psychologic adjustment, as well as nursing intervention for the trauma patient, the patient who has ...
R C, Anderson, D P, Maksud
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Psychological adjustment to chronic disease
The Lancet, 2008This Review discusses physiological, emotional, behavioural, and cognitive aspects of psychological adjustment to chronic illness. Reviewing the reports of the past decade, we identify four innovative and promising themes that are relevant for understanding and explaining psychological adjustment.
De Ridder, D.T.D. +3 more
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Psychological adjustment after cardiac transplantation
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1998Psychosocial function improves after cardiac transplantation but the extent of improvement is not established. Neither are the factors established that account for variability in function between patients following successful transplantation. We therefore compared illness-related dysfunction in patients following orthotopic cardiac transplantation (OCT)
P, Salmon +4 more
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Psychological Factors in Postmastectomy Adjustment
Psychological Reports, 1981This study examined various psychological factors associated with cancer and its treatment in women. 10 mastectomy patients were compared with 6 gynecological cancer and 5 breast biopsy patients to measure changes in body image, depression, and over-all adjustment over a 2-mo. period.
H J, Krouse, J H, Krouse
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Acculturation, Personality, and Psychological Adjustment
Psychological Reports, 2011Two studies investigated relationships between traditional indicators of acculturation, cultural distance, acculturation strategies, and basic dimensions of personality as they pertain to psychological adjustment among Hispanic students. Although personality characteristics have been shown to be important determinants of psychological well-being ...
Stephan A, Ahadi, Rogelio, Puente-Díaz
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Decisiveness and Psychological Adjustment
Journal of Personality Assessment, 1976Decisiveness, defined as the ability of the individual to engage in the decision-making process, was examined in relation to a number of parameters of psychological adjustment. Six decisiveness instruments, a series of adjustment measures, and peer rating assessments were obtained for 228 volunteer subjects.
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Aging and Psychological Adjustment
Review of Educational Research, 1955THE past three years have seen a considerable amount of study of the psychological adjustment of people as they grow older. But the concept of adjustment as applied to adults in a modern society is so complex that these studies have merely served to outline the problem and to suggest some useful approaches to it, leaving a thoro exploration of it to ...
Robert J. Havighurst, Betty E. Orr
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