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Psychological Adjustment and Response to Open-Heart Surgery: Some Methodological Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Theodore F. Henrichs  and
William F. Waters
Theodore F. Henrichs
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65201, U.S.A.
William F. Waters
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65201, U.S.A.
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Psychological factors have long been posited as having a role in determining a person's response to open-heart surgery. As early as 1956 Bolton and Bailey reported a high correlation between a history of psychiatric problems and psychiatric complications following cardiac surgery.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 558 , May 1972 , pp. 491 - 496
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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