Cardiac Patients and Spouses

Gail A. Hilbert
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Gail A. Hilbert: Trenton State College

Clinical Nursing Research, 1994, vol. 3, issue 3, 243-252

Abstract: This study examined the relationships among satisfaction with family function and emotional states of a nonprobability sample of sixty-six myocardial infarction (AM patients and their spouses who were recruited from hospitals in the Delaware Valley. Patients and spouses completed the Family APGAR and the Affects Balance Scale. It was found that both patients and spouses experienced substantial emotional distress when compared with the norms for nonclinical subjects. They were highly correlated on both measures, particularly for positive emotion and satisfaction with family function (p

Date: 1994
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