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Erschienen in: Diabetologia 1/2011

01.01.2011 | Letter

Coping and depression in diabetic foot ulcer healing: causal influence, mechanistic evidence or none of the above?

verfasst von: J. S. Gonzalez, M. J. Hardman, A. J. M. Boulton, L. Vileikyte

Erschienen in: Diabetologia | Ausgabe 1/2011

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To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Vedhara and colleagues on coping, depression and healing of diabetic foot ulcers [1], as we believe the investigation of psychosocial aspects of foot ulceration is important and understudied. However, we were disappointed that claims of ‘influence’ and ‘mechanistic evidence’ in the title and conclusions of the paper do not appear to be supported by the data presented. Although problems regarding the reliability of depression and avoidance coping measures, and small sample sizes for secondary analyses are noted, other important methodological problems are not. …
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Metadaten
Titel
Coping and depression in diabetic foot ulcer healing: causal influence, mechanistic evidence or none of the above?
verfasst von
J. S. Gonzalez
M. J. Hardman
A. J. M. Boulton
L. Vileikyte
Publikationsdatum
01.01.2011
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Diabetologia / Ausgabe 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0012-186X
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-010-1926-2

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