Journal article
Negative attitudes among short-term stroke survivors predict worse long-term survival.
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Patients respond to serious illness in different ways. We wished to determine whether different attitudes toward illness are associated with survival after stroke. METHODS: Three hundred seventy-two stroke patients were identified and medically assessed as part of a randomized trial to evaluate a stroke family care worker. They had all survived 6 months from randomization. A research psychologist visited each patient and administered the Mental Adjustment to Stroke Sca...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 1640-1645
- Publication date:
- 2001-07-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1524-4628
- ISSN:
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0039-2499
- Source identifiers:
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175764
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:175764
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uuid:cd7c0f01-9e96-467a-b77a-a69772152f30
- Local pid:
- pubs:175764
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2001
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