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Hearts In The Balance: The Impact Of Desired Versus Received Social Support Needs On Persons With Heart Failure, Melanie P. Schrader
Hearts In The Balance: The Impact Of Desired Versus Received Social Support Needs On Persons With Heart Failure, Melanie P. Schrader
Theses and Dissertations--Nursing
Social support is the collection of tangible and intangible experiences that surround people as they cope with daily stressors. High quality social support is important among patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) because it has positive effects on social, psychological and physical well-being, and those with good social support cope better with the travails of CVD. Although there are many studies of social support in CVD, little work has been done on the topic of discrepancies between desired and received social support in the context of gender.
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine if there are gender differences in …