Correlations among nurses' ratings of patients' coping effectiveness and recovery from heart attack

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Title Correlations among nurses' ratings of patients' coping effectiveness and recovery from heart attack
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Sutter, Cynthia
Date 1986-03
Description This study examines the correlations among nurses' ratings of myocardial infarction patients' coping effectiveness and selected clinical outcomes. Ratings were made on 59 patients in hospital and home settings through a 6-months recovery period. The theoretical framework for the study was based on Lazarus' cognitive phenomenological paradigm of psychological stress and Moos' adaptive task of coping. Data were collected by trained nurse interviewers and examined using descriptive and correlational analysis. The findings suggest that trained nurses are able to make clinical assessments of patients' coping effectiveness early in the course of recovery that are predictive of later coping effectiveness, self-reported well-being as measured by the General Well-Being Schedule and the Social Adjustment Scale by Self-Report, compliance and depression. Correlations with physicians' ratings of recovery were also found to be significant. Implications for practice are discussed and suggestions for future research offered.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Social Adjustment; Nursing Process; Nursing Methodology Research
Subject MESH Myocardial Infarction; Stress, Psychological; Adaptation, Psychological; Nursing Assessment; Attitude to Health; Aftercare
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Correlations among nurses' ratings of patients' coping effectiveness and recovery from heart attack." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Correlations among nurses' ratings of patients' coping effectiveness and recovery from heart attack." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RC 39.5 1986 S8
Rights Management © Cynthia Sutter
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Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Funding/Fellowship John Wolfer and the research team of Preparatory-Supportive Care of the MI Patient and Family project (Division of Nursing Grant no. 5P01 NU-00842-02).
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60r9r69
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