APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Social Support As an Effective Predictor of Symptom Severity in Pulmonary Hypertension

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Social

  • Danae Fields
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • Adetoun Sodimu
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • Oluwatosin Igenoza
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • Balaji Kolasani
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • Kelly Chin
    UT Southwestern Medical Center

Abstract

As the life expectancy of people with Pulmonary Hypertension increases, research has begun to focus on improving quality of life. Social support, an important factor of this construct, was evaluated in this study to examine the connection between it and change in perceived symptom severity over time.

Social Groups/Social Relationships

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