Most frequent emotional states in convalescent patients of myocardial infarction and its relationship to cardiovascular health state

Authors

  • María C. García Martín Departamento de Psicología. Hospital Universitario Celestino Hernández Robau. Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.
  • Yannelis C. Gómez García Departamento de Rehabilitación Cardiovascular. Servicio de Cardiología. Hospital Universitario Celestino Hernández Robau. Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.
  • Yorsenka Milord Fernández Departamento de Rehabilitación Cardiovascular. Servicio de Cardiología. Hospital Universitario Celestino Hernández Robau. Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.
  • Raúl A. Herrera Izquierdo Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas “Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”. Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.

Abstract

Introduction: Patients with myocardial infarction often express emotional states including fear of dying when suffering a cardiovascular event.

Objective: To determine the relationship between most frequent emotional states post-myocardial infarction and the compensation degree of somatic health status in patients during convalescence.
Method: A prospective study was carried out on 31 patients, selected by (non-probabilistic) purposive sampling, who attended follow-up cardiology consultation at “Hospital Celestino Hernández Robau” from Santa Clara, from September 2014 to March 2015. Document review techniques, interviews, Rotter, IDARE and IDERE tests were applied.
Results: Hypertension was the main cardiovascular risk factor (90.3%). There was a male predominance (64.5%) and a partially unbalanced state of somatic health (51.6%), mostly in men (60.0%). Only 25.8% of compensated patients. Generally the average indicator of anxiety and depression predominated; but we found high levels of these emotional states in decompensated and partially unbalanced patients, especially as a state.
Conclusions: There was a predominance of partially offset somatic state of health. High levels of anxiety and depression states were identified and it was found the existence of an important relation between anxiety-depression emotional states, and the somatic state of health relating to the cardiovascular system in patients convalescent from myocardial infarction.

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Published

2016-01-21

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García Martín MC, Gómez García YC, Milord Fernández Y, Herrera Izquierdo RA. Most frequent emotional states in convalescent patients of myocardial infarction and its relationship to cardiovascular health state. CorSalud [Internet]. 2016 Jan. 21 [cited 2025 Jul. 2];8(1):38-44. Available from: https://revcorsalud.sld.cu/index.php/cors/article/view/95

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2016)

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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