Illness adjustment of adult patients with cystic fibrosis II. 2. Social support and coping
Röthlisberger, C.
Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie 41(4): 373-388
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0723-6557 PMID: 8212777 Document Number: 410288
As a part of our study of the coping with cystic fibrosis we examined the social network and the social support of adult patients. The results suggests that there is only little difference between women and men in the size of network and perceived support and that the family is of great importance as a source of support. Compared with healthy adults, perceived social support seems to be less but greater than for depressive patients. Only some coping-clusters do correlate positively with social support.