DISEASE PERCEPTION, PAIN FELT AND TREATMENT COMPLIANCE IN CORONARY CATHETERIZED PATIENTS WITH SLOW CORONARY FLOW
Journal Title: Българско списание за обществено здраве (Bulgarian Journal of Public Health) - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) forefronts the development of international action plans on chronic non-communicable diseases. Study aim is to reveal the relation between disease perception and therapy compliance according the level and profiles of experienced pain, disease concept, and psychosocial functioning in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization, but differing in diagnosis, focusing on new angiographic finding slow coronary flow (SCF). There have been used clinical status data and such gathered with express questionnaires to reveal pain level, perception and attitudes towards disease with tracing of psychosocial functioning 6 weeks after discharge (follow-up). The results reveal differences in the felt pains, disease perception and treatment compliance depending on diagnosis and significant correlation between the perception of own disease and the psychosocial functioning later, r = 0.188. Anxiety and depression have an impact on subjective disease perception and compliance. The findings serve as a base to create structured guidance to support the proper disease understanding of patients with SCF and to motivate them for compliance to medical treatment aimed at prevention of recurrent hospital admission, health and workability promotion of the patients.
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Ali Shalabi, Bistra Tzenova
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