https://www.selleckchem.com/products/bix-01294.html Results confirm the link between CD and elevated psychological symptoms. The findings highlight the need to use appropriate BSI norms when assessing clinically significant levels of psychological symptoms in non-psychiatric patients with chronic illness. Results confirm the link between CD and elevated psychological symptoms. The findings highlight the need to use appropriate BSI norms when assessing clinically significant levels of psychological symptoms in non-psychiatric patients with chronic illness. To examine patient-reported causal attributions in patients with coronary artery disease and classify them according to attribution theory. Patients with angiographically verified coronary artery disease (  = 459) were asked to report causal attributions by answering the respective open-ended item of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire. Groups resulting from classifications were characterised with regard to sociodemographic and clinical variables, Quality of Life (SF-12), depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), and illness perception (BIPQ). Stress emerged as the single most important attribution followed by various behavioural factors and genetic predisposition. There was a remarkable mismatch between the presence of modifiable risk factors (smoking, obesity) and patient-reported illness attributions. Based on the results of the descriptive categorisation of illness attributions we developed a transparent, easily reproducible scheme for dimensional classification of the fifteen most common responses according to attribution theory. The classification resulted in four groups Behaviour/Emotional State, Past Behaviour/Emotional State, Physical/Psychological Trait and External. We found a pattern of illness attributions largely in line with previous trials. The dimensional classification resulted in four groups and highlighted potential entry points for physician-patient communication aimed at establishing benefic