How Older Female Spouses Cope with Partners’ Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
This research sought to better understand how older female spouses cope with a partner’s coronary artery bypass graft surgery and to explore coping’s relationships with life-change stress, cognitive appraisal, resilience, social support, and aspects of spouse’s surgery. A sample of 96 women, aged fr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2013-01-01
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Series: | Nursing Research and Practice |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/923137 |