Background: Most clinicians would probably agree that what patients think will happen can
influence what does happen over the clinical course. Yet despite useful narrative reviews on …

Background The purpose of this review was to identify critical data and research needs in
addressing the following question: What are the primary factors that affect the time lost from …

Objective This study was designed to examine whether a brief hospital intervention
designed to alter patients' perceptions about their myocardial infarction (MI) would result in a …

Objective: To examine whether patients' initial perceptions of their myocardial infarction
predict subsequent attendance at a cardiac rehabilitation course, return to work, disability …

Return to work after injury or illness is a behavior influenced by physical, psychological, and
social factors. Disability research lacks a conceptual framework for combining these factors …

First Published in 1997. The study of how individuals perceive and make sense of health
and illness is a new and rapidly developing area in health psychology. The field has seen …

Although coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in most
industrialized countries, much less research has been carried out on this topic to date than …

The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in
acutely ill medical inpatients. A total of 313 consecutively admitted patients were interviewed …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of patients' presurgery
illness beliefs and cardiac risk factors on health-related outcomes 3 months following …

OBJECTIVE: Depression occurs commonly in coronary artery disease (CAD) and is
associated with substantial disability. Modifiable cognitive determinants of depression in this …