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Emotion Profiles and Quality‐of‐Life of Paced Patients
Author(s) -
ČATIPOVIČVESELICA KATIJA,
ŠKRINJARIĆ SANDA,
MRDENOVIĆ SLOBODAN,
MUJIĆ NIHADA,
ČÃIPOVIĆ BRANIMIR,
ANDRIĆ MIRTA,
VIZNERLOVRIĆ IRENA,
LAUC ANTE
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1990.tb02053.x
Subject(s) - medicine , personality , quality of life (healthcare) , sample (material) , quality (philosophy) , social psychology , nursing , psychology , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , chromatography
More than any other organ of human anatomy, the heart is symbolically charged with emotions. Introducing a foreign body into the heart, even a pacemaker, would be expected to alter, if not damage the most intimate of personal attributes, an individual's personality. Nevertheless, standard measures of emotions, administered before and after pacemaker implantation, revealed an improvement in psychological well‐being in an unselected sample of 80 patients, aged 36 to 80 years. Furthermore, these results occurred whether or not patients returned to work.