Pedersen S S, Boersma E, Jansen C G, Deckers J W, Erdman R A M
Neth Heart J. 2001 Dec;9(9):365-371.
To investigate gender differences on psychological outcome following cardiac disease, and to identify predictors of psychological distress.
In total, 536 consecutive cardiac patients ≤70 years were identified from medical records to participate in the study: 36 of them proved to have died since the index event. The mean time since the index event was one year and seven months. Of the 500 patients, 357 (71%) agreed to attend an interview on biomedical risk factors and fill in a psychological questionnaire. Complete psychological data were available for 287 (80%) patients.
Women scored significantly higher on anxiety, depression, vital exhaustion and social inhibition, and lower on wellbeing compared with men. Gender, age, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, smoking and admission for a recurrent event since the index event were independent predictors of psychological outcome.
These results add to current knowledge on gender differences and show that women have an adverse outcome on a range of psychological variables. This has implications for secondary prevention and rehabilitation. Longitudinal studies are needed to assess the implications of adverse psychological outcome in women on prognosis.
研究心脏病患者心理结局的性别差异,并确定心理困扰的预测因素。
从病历中总共筛选出536例年龄≤70岁的连续心脏病患者参与研究:其中36例自索引事件后已死亡。自索引事件后的平均时间为1年零7个月。在这500例患者中,357例(71%)同意参加关于生物医学危险因素的访谈并填写一份心理问卷。287例(80%)患者有完整的心理数据。
与男性相比,女性在焦虑、抑郁、活力耗竭和社交抑制方面得分显著更高,而在幸福感方面得分更低。性别、年龄、经皮腔内冠状动脉成形术、吸烟以及自索引事件后因复发事件入院是心理结局的独立预测因素。
这些结果丰富了当前关于性别差异的知识,并表明女性在一系列心理变量上有不良结局。这对二级预防和康复有影响。需要进行纵向研究来评估女性不良心理结局对预后的影响。