Short-term and long-term effects of psychosocial factors on changes in medical adherence among patients with coronary heart disease

• Main Author: Fan, Yunge
• Other Authors: Ho Moon-Ho Ringo
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion; Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157775
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the global leading cause of mortality and disabilities, which is a chronic illness that often requires lifetime management. Although effective medical treatment has proved to successfully improve the prognoses and outcomes of patients with CHD, low adherence to medic...