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JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 13-14, Pages 2520-2527Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1359105319864633
Keywords
anxiety; coping; coronary heart disease; older person; optimism; religion
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- National Institute on Again Grant [R03 AG015686-01]
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Anxiety is an under-investigated comorbidity in heart disease patients. Optimism/hope is a character strength that indicates confidence or favorable expectation about the future. Previous research has consistently reported optimal health outcomes among optimists. However, many studies have lacked adjustment for medical confounders and/or used small clinical samples. To bridge this gap, we tested the hypothesis that optimism/hope was inversely related to anxiety in 400+ patients with advanced heart disease during the stressful waiting period prior to open-heart surgery. The findings supported the hypothesis after controlling for general health, illness impact, behavioral risks, and cardiac medical indices used by surgeons.
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