Positive Life Orientation and Recovery from Myocardial Infarction

Agarwal, Manju; Dalal, Ajit K.; Agarwal, D. K.; Agarwal, Reshma

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“…On the one hand, it could be argued that an optimistically slanted portrayal, wherein the recovery period is portrayed as a steady forward progression, with potential problems and setbacks deemphasized, may be particularly beneficial. There is growing evidence that positive expectations may contribute generally to better mental health and to overcoming various serious illnesses (e.g., Agarwal, Dalal, Agarwal, & Agarwal, 1995; Leedham, Meyerowitz, Muirhead, & Frist, 1995; O'Leary, 1985; Scheier & Carver, 1985, 1987, 1992; Schulz, Bookwala, Knapp, Scheier, & Williamson, 1996; Taylor & Brown, 1988). Thus, it is possible that the emotional well-being of spouses would be enhanced particularly by inducing positive expectations about the recovery process and that if such positive expectations were transmitted to the patients, that patients' recoveries would be benefited as well.…”

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Effects of a videotape information intervention for spouses on spouse distress and patient recovery from surgery.

Mahler

Kulik²

2002

Health Psychology

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Shortly before hospital release, the spouses of 226 male and 70 female coronary artery bypass graft patients were randomly assigned to view an optimistically slanted information tape, a tape that featured coping with more ups and downs, or no tape at all. Results indicated that women, whether as patients or as caregivers, were at elevated risk for a variety of negative outcomes during the subsequent 6 months. However, female patients who had spouses in the optimistic, mastery-tape condition were protected from the elevated levels of problems that characterized women whose spouses received only standard discharge preparation. Results are discussed in relation to research on optimism effects and work that suggests men may generally be less effective caregivers than women.

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Section: Information Intervention Studiesmentioning

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Effects of a videotape information intervention for spouses on spouse distress and patient recovery from surgery.

Mahler

Kulik²

2002

Health Psychology

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“…Several participants revealed in their narratives that earlier they were dependent on their husbands, but became independent and empowered after their attack and were free to make their own decisions. Past researches have related positive life orientation to optimism, emotional vitality, and emotional well-being (Agarwal et al, 1995;Pitkala et al, 2004). Fagerstrom (2010) has also stressed the importance of positive life orientation as the inner health resource.…”

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Role of Psychological Makeup in Psychological Rehabilitation of Acid Attack Victims

Mittal

Singh

Verma

2020

J Interpers Violence

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From eve-teasing to more aggressive forms of sexual violence, subjection of women to sexual violence has been on the rise. One heinous form of sexual violence is the acid attack. Acid attack refers to the intentional act of throwing acid on an individual with the intent of harming, torturing, disfiguring, injuring, or killing them. Despite an increase in the number of reported cases of acid attacks, the initial nonavailability of strict legislatures and underreporting of the crime have led to gross underrepresentation of the acid attack victims in the scientific literature. Moreover, most researches focus on the impact of acid attack and not on the process of recovery for these victims. Hence, this paper attempts to explore the role of psychological makeup in the psychological rehabilitation of acid attack victims. This study adopted the homogeneous purposive sampling method. The sample consisted of 30 female victims of acid attack between the age group of 18 to 25 years. The narratives of these victims focusing on their experiences before and after the incidence were collected. Findings of this study indicate that psychological makeup is an important variable that is responsible for the successful recovery from trauma. Nearly all of the victims have shown symptoms of maladaptive psychological makeup after facing a violent event. However, after participation in the rehabilitation program, the victims moved from having maladaptive psychological makeup toward having adaptive psychological makeup. The emergent subthemes comprising maladaptive psychological makeup consists of cognitive distortions, hopelessness, shame, and suicidal ideation; and for adaptive psychological makeup, these are positive life orientation, belief in the just world, and self-efficacy. The insights of the study will contribute to an improved understanding of the recovery process of the acid attack victims and help in planning intervention protocols for them.

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“…Although the mechanisms of accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic vasculitis have not been fully clarified and may differ in the different vasculitic syndromes, direct injury to arteries, arterial intimal -media calcification, pro-atherogenic changes in lipid and fibrin metabolism, and systemic hypertension due to alterations in carotid baroreceptor sensitivity, as a consequence to vasculitis, have been proposed. ( Agarwal et al, 2010;Donald et al, 1976;Kane & Keogh, 2009;Mukhtyar, et al, 2009).…”

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“…Primary systemic vasculitides are categorized according to the vessel size, into large-vessel and medium-to small-vessel vasculitis, while the mode and incidence of cardiac involvement vary within the different vasculitic syndromes. (Agarwal et al, 2010;Hata & Onouchi, 2009;Hewins & Jane, 2010;Kane & Keogh, 2009;Mukhtyar et al, 2009). The relation of coronary artery disease with different categories of primary vasculitides are reviewed.…”

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Coronary Artery Diseases

Yin

Hsiung

2023

Atlas of Perioperative 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography

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In 2000-2005 he was working as lead researcher in hightech companies SQUID AG and MagScan GmbX (Germany). Currently, he is senior staff scientist in the field of medical cybernetics at International Research and Training Center for ITandS of NAS of Ukraine. He combines clinical work with research, focusing on advanced methods for analysis (including pattern recognition) of electrocardiogram , magnetocardiogram , heart rate variability and implementation of such approaches in clinical routine. His research in these areas has been presented at international congresses (ESC, AHA, ACC and many others) and has appeared in academic journals such as PACE, Clinical Cardiology, Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology, European Heart Journal, Biophysics etc. He is the author of the book (together with L. Fainzilberg) , devoted to analysis of PrefaceThis book has "wide geography" both literally and figuratively. First of all, this book brings together contributions from around the world, both from post-industrial countries and developing world. This is natural, because coronary artery disease is becoming pandemic worldwide. CAD is the single most frequent cause of death in developed countries, causes about 1 in every 5 deaths.Mortality from cardiovascular disease is predicted to reach 23.4 million in 2030. Moreover, in the developing world, cardiovascular disease tends to affect people at a younger age and thus could negatively affect the workforce and economic productivity. The morbidity, mortality, and socioeconomic importance of CAD make its diagnosis and management fundamental for all practicing physicians. On another hand, the book widely represents "geography" of CAD itself, i.e. many various aspects of its pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment are touched in this book.Pathophysiologic mechanisms of CAD are well studied in general, but there are some details to be clarified. Oxidative stress is considered as one of important pathogenetic components of the atherosclerosis course, studies of its effect onto the atherosclerotic plaque formation and progression are still lasted. Section "Coronary artery disease: pathophysiology and epidemiology" includes the review "Coronary Artery Disease and Oxidative Stress"concerning this problem.Another chapter in this Section is an epidemiological research demonstrating capabilities of the modern genetic risk factors in improvement of the ability to predict incident CAD beyond that afforded by traditional non genetic risk factors.Section "Coronary artery disease: diagnostic features" begins with the chapter "Magnetocardiography in Unshielded Setting: Heart Electrical Image based on 2-D and 3-D Data in Comparison with Perfusion Image Based on PET Results", devoted to the promising technique of investigation of the cardiac electrical generatormagnetocardiography (MCG). Comparison is drawn of the cardiac imaging on the base of current density distribution maps, obtained by MCG and PET images. Two other articles of this Section are devoted to the different issues of the mo...

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Positive Life Orientation and Recovery from Myocardial Infarction

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Effects of a videotape information intervention for spouses on spouse distress and patient recovery from surgery.

Effects of a videotape information intervention for spouses on spouse distress and patient recovery from surgery.

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