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Emotional profiles of families with a heart-operated patient: a pilot study
G Invernizzi1, C Bressi, P Bertrando
1Institute of Psychiatry, University of Milan, Italy.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Family interaction is a basic factor in determining the quality of life of patients undergoing heart surgery. The present study investigates the emotional attitudes in the relatives of 10 heart-operated patients. The results indicate that a high amount of relatives' emotional overinvolvement and warmth tends toward a correlation with lower anxiety and depression scores, and with a better 12-month outcome of the illness.