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Does the Spouse-Report Type A Behaviour Pattern Questionnaire identify differences in behavior patterns between patients with coronary heart disease and healthy controls?
Does the Spouse-Report Type A Behaviour Pattern Questionnaire identify differences in behavior patterns between patients with coronary heart disease and healthy controls?
Spouse-reported Type A behavior, specifically anger and hostility, is associated with the presence of coronary heart disease but not its severity.
Spouse-reported anger/hostility was associated with CHD presence but not severity; leaves open causal role and screening utility.
This paper describes further validation of the Spouse-Report Type A Behaviour Pattern Questionnaire. In a case controlled study of 61 cardiac patients versus 61 community controls, the questionnaire was found to discriminate statistically between a group of patients with proven coronary heart disease and a group of matched healthy controls on the anger/hostility subscale and total Type A score. No relationship between Type A score and coronary heart disease severity was found. Possible explanations for these findings are examined.
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