Aspects of the psychological status of patients treated with cardiac pacemakers
Autor: | E. Stonehill, A. H. Crisp |
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Rok vydání: | 1969 |
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Pacemaker Artificial medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Adjustment disorders Population Adjustment Disorders Psychological status medicine Humans Adams–Stokes syndrome Patient group education Psychiatry Aged media_common Psychiatric Status Rating Scales education.field_of_study business.industry Psychological distress Articles General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders External pacemakers Physical therapy Female Worry business Adams-Stokes Syndrome |
Zdroj: | Postgraduate Medical Journal. 45:423-427 |
ISSN: | 1469-0756 0032-5473 |
DOI: | 10.1136/pgmj.45.525.423 |
Popis: | Summary An initial clinical observation that patients with externally located cardiac pacemakers are more distressed and depressed than those with internally sited pacemakers has been confirmed. The total patient group is also characterized by its tendency to report that it does not worry about getting an incurable illness. At the same time, it is evident to others that it does have such an illness. Those patients who acknowledge that they did worry in this way were found to score significantly higher on several scales of a standardized psychoneurotic index than did the overall ‘pacemaker’ population. Possible reasons for the greater psychological distress displayed by the group of patients with external pacemakers are discussed. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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