Why the study?
How does health locus of control and disease burden relate to self-rated health among patients at risk for cardiovascular disease?
Population
414 Swedish patients at risk for cardiovascular disease who were using statins
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Internal locus of control was associated with better self-rated health in CVD at-risk patients; extends prior associations but leaves open causal effects on outcomes.
How does health locus of control and disease burden relate to self-rated health among patients at risk for cardiovascular disease?
In patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease, self-rated health is positively correlated with an internal locus of control and negatively associated with a locus of control attributed to chance or powerful others.
Berglund et al. (2014) studied this question.
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