The association of depressive symptoms in patients with acute myocardial infarction in a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa
| Autor: | Suvira Ramlall, Ben Sartorius, Chiara Sookan, N. Ranjith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Aerospace Engineering Perceived Stress Scale Acute myocardial infarction medicine.disease depressive symptoms lcsh:RC666-701 Internal medicine depression Cohort Coronary care unit History of depression medicine Myocardial infarction Family history business Mace Depression (differential diagnoses) |
| Zdroj: | SA Heart Journal, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 108-115 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2071-4602 |
| Popis: | Objective: To examine the association of depressive symptoms and contributing psychosocial factors during hospitalisation and 1-month post discharge in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). Methods and results: The study population comprised consecutive patients from a multi-ethnic background, admitted June 2015 - November 2015 to the Coronary Care Unit at R. K. Khan Hospital, Durban, South Africa, with a diagnosis of MI. Demographic and clinical data stored in a specialised electronic cardiac database were extracted for all patients. Patients were screened for depressive symptoms using the Cardiac Depression Scale (CDS). Levels of perceived stress were evaluated using the 4-item Perceived Stress Scale (4-PSS). The study cohort consisted of 117 patients with a mean age of 58.16 ± 11.12 years, the majority of whom were males (70%, mean age 56.54 ± 1.23 years) and 30% females (mean age 61.97 ± 1.75 years). Forty-nine percent of the participants were diagnosed with depressive symptoms with a significantly greater number of females experiencing depressive symptoms compared to males (p |
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