Coping and Resilience in Chinese Couples with Connective Tissue Diseases: A Culturally Informed Qualitative Explanation
Resilience is a dynamic, dyadic construct, co-constructed in moment-to-moment interactions. This necessitates viewing the couple, not the individual, as the essential unit of care in CTDs management. Interventions must therefore be designed to preserve patient autonomy while cultivating authentic emotional disclosure and collaborative problem-solving.
Authors
- Shuai Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-5437)
- X.D. Cai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0598-8386)
- Chen Dong
- Zhifeng Gu
Institutions
- Nantong University (CN)
- Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Patient Preference and Adherence
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2147/ppa.s578038
- Primary Topic
- Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Government of Jiangsu Province
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province
- Nantong University
- Science and Technology Project of Nantong City