The present study describes various strategies of coping with illness as observed in pancreatectomy patients, a group of patients which has not been investigated before in this field of research. Questionnaire data obtained from a sample of n = 134 were analyzed with regard to sociodemographic (age, sex) and medical characteristics (indication for surgery: chronic pancreatitis vs. pancreatic carcinoma; outcome after surgery: diabetes, hypoglycemia, pain). The relationships between ways of coping and several adaptation criteria were investigated. The question is put up to discussion, if it is possible to clearly separate emotion as a way of coping and emotion as an outcome of coping.
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