Lack of prognostic value of type D personality for mortality in a large sample of heart failure patientsJames C Coyne
Health Psychology Section, Department of Health Science, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, HPC FA12, PO Box 196, NL 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
Psychosom Med 73:557-62. 2011
..This study examined its prognostic value in heart failure, relative to B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and depressive symptoms...
More evidence that depressive symptoms predict mortality in COPD patients: is type D personality an alternative explanation?Jacob N de Voogd
Center for Rehabilitation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands
Ann Behav Med 38:86-93. 2009
..We further investigated whether type D personality is associated with mortality in patients with COPD and whether it explains any relationship observed between depressive symptoms and mortality...
Gender-specific risk factors for mortality associated with incident coronary heart disease--a prospective community-based studyCornelia H M van Jaarsveld
Northern Centre for Healthcare Research, Dept of Public Health and Health Psychology, University Medical Centre Groningen, PO Box 196, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
Prev Med 43:361-7. 2006
..Risk factors for mortality in community-residing persons developing congestive heart failure (CHF) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may differ for males and females...
- Quality of life and depressive symptoms in the elderly: a comparison between patients with heart failure and age- and gender-matched community controls
Ivonne Lesman-Leegte
Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
J Card Fail 15:17-23. 2009
..We compared QoL and depressive symptoms of a HF population with an age- and gender-matched sample of community dwelling elderly...
- Course of distress in breast cancer patients, their partners, and matched control couples
Chris Hinnen
Department of Health Sciences, Graduate School for Health Research, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Ann Behav Med 36:141-8. 2008
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- Distress in couples coping with cancer: a meta-analysis and critical review of role and gender effects
Mariet Hagedoorn
Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Psychol Bull 134:1-30. 2008
..Attention needs to be directed toward factors other than cancer as direct influences of distress in these couples and to mediators and moderators of the cancer experience...
- Invited commentary: personality as a causal factor in cancer risk and mortality--time to retire a hypothesis?
Adelita V Ranchor
Health Psychology Section, Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, HPC FA12, POB 196, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
Am J Epidemiol 172:386-8. 2010
..They question whether it is time for the field to move on from considering a role for personality in cancer to more promising and modifiable factors...
- Depressive symptoms as predictors of mortality in patients with COPD
Jacob N de Voogd
Center for Rehabilitation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands
Chest 135:619-25. 2009
..The present study investigated the independent association of depressive symptoms in stable patients with COPD with all-cause mortality...
- Does marriage protect older people from distress? The role of equity and recency of bereavement
Mariet Hagedoorn
Department of Public Health and Health Psychology, Northern Centre for Healthcare Research, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Psychol Aging 21:611-20. 2006
..Increased distress between the 2 waves occurred in recently widowed persons, and there was a decrease in distress in persons who were widowed shortly before the 1st wave. No gender effects were found...
- Does screening for distress efficiently uncover meetable unmet needs in cancer patients?
Corinne van Scheppingen
Health Psychology Section, Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Psychooncology 20:655-63. 2011
..We evaluated screening for distress in terms of its ability to uncover unmet need for psychosocial services in cancer patients. Correlates of distress, need for services and met and unmet need for services were investigated...
- Are we witnessing the decline effect in the Type D personality literature? What can be learned?
James C Coyne
Health Psychology Section, Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, USA Electronic address
J Psychosom Res 73:401-7. 2012
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- Depression screening and patient outcomes in cancer: a systematic review
Anna Meijer
Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 6:e27181. 2011
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- Epidemiology of heart failure in a community-based study of subjects aged > or = 57 years: incidence and long-term survival
Cornelia H M van Jaarsveld
Northern Centre for Healthcare Research, Department of Public Health and Health Psychology, University Medical Centre Groningen, PO Box 196, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
Eur J Heart Fail 8:23-30. 2006
..Survival data from hospital-based or clinical trial studies of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) do not represent survival in community-based settings...
