Attitudes Toward Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Patients Referred to a Cardiac Rehabilitation Center: Importance of Psychological Attitudes

lranian journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases

Mozhgan Saeidi¹  Ali Soroush²  Khodamorad Moemeni³  Behzad Heydarpour¹  Saeid Komasi¹ 

[1] Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Imam Ali Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IR Iran;Department of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), Kermanshah, IR Iran;Department of psychology, Kermanshah Razi University, Kermanshah, IR Iran

关键词: Cardiovascular disease;    Psychological;    Risk Factors;    Patients;    Attitudes;    Cardiac Rehabilitation;    Heart Disease;   

DOI  :  10.17795/semj22281

学科分类：基础医学

来源: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Background:Patients’understandingofheartdiseasesandtheirrelatedexperiencescanaffecteducationandpreventionofcoronaryheartdiseases.Asthepatients’beliefsplayacrucialroleinthedevelopmentofeffectivetherapeuticrelationship,psychologicaladjustment,andcompliancewithtreatmentrecommendations.Objectives:ThepurposeofthisstudywastoinvestigatetheattitudestowardpsychologicalriskfactorsforcardiovasculardiseaseamongpatientsreferredtoacardiacrehabilitationcenterinImamAliHospitalinKermanshah,IranPatientsandMethods:Thiscross-sectionalstudywasperformedon775patientsreferredtoacardiacrehabilitationunitinImamAlihospitalinKermanshah,Iran.Datawerecollectedusingclinicalinterview,patients’medicalrecords,andMillonclinicalmultiaxialinventory(MCMI-III),andanalyzedbydescriptivestatistics,includingmean,standarddeviation,andchi‐squaretest.StatisticalanalyseswereperformedusingSPSSsoftwareversion18Results:Thepatientsbelievedthatthemaincauseoftheirillnessisbehavioralriskfactors(42.0%).Then,theyreferredtopsychological(36.3%),biological(4.3%),andenvironmental(3.8%)factors,respectively.10.4%ofthepatientswerenotawareofthecauseoftheirillness.Also,stressisthemostimportantfactoramongthepsychologicalfactors(27.5%).Theresultsshowedthattherewasasignificantdifferenceamongthepatientsintermoffourattitudes(χ2=820.356;Plt;0.01);andbehavioralandpsychologicalattitudes(χ2=6.025;Plt;0.05).Infact,thepatientsidentifiedbehavioralproblemsasthemaincauseoftheirillness.Conclusions:Accordingtothepatients’attitudes,afterthebehavioralfactors,psychologicalfactorsarethesecondcauseofheartdiseases.Therefore,ignoringthesefactorsbymembersofthemedicalteamsmayleadtoapoorperformanceofthetreatments.Asthesefactorsarecontrollable,learningtocontrolandmanagethemcanpreventthedevelopmentofsubsequentcardiovascularevents.

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