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Vital exhaustion, neuroticism and symptom reporting in patients with cardiac and non‐cardiac chest pain
Author(s) -
Bennett Paul,
Smith Paula,
Gallacher John E. J.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 2044-8287
pISSN - 1359-107X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8287.1996.tb00511.x
Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , myocardial infarction , neuroticism , pill , cardiology , psychology , personality , social psychology , pharmacology
In a case control study, 60 participants matched for age and gender were identified in three conditions: patients admitted with confirmed first myocardial infarction (MI), patients admitted with chest pain but with no evidence of MI, and a ‘normal’ control group. Amongst a number of measures, they completed the Pennebaker Inventory of Linguid Languidness (PILL) and Maastricht Questionnaire (MQ). Both MQ and PILL, alone and in combination, failed to discriminate between cardiac and non‐cardiac patients, only between patients and controls. The implications of these results are discussed.