Illness perception among Chinese patients with acute myocardial infarction
| Autor: | Lin Chen, Jing-Feng Wang, Liming You, Jing-Hua Chen, Jun Yan, Bailing Liu, Shangyi Jin, Jian-Gui He, Jingjing Zhou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty China Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Psychometrics Cross-sectional study media_common.quotation_subject Health Behavior MEDLINE Myocardial Infarction Illness perceptions Correlation Asian People Perception Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Myocardial infarction Psychiatry media_common Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Test (assessment) Cross-Sectional Studies Socioeconomic Factors Female Analysis of variance business |
| Zdroj: | Patient education and counseling. 85(3) |
| ISSN: | 1873-5134 |
| Popis: | Objective To explore illness perception (IP) and its predictors among Chinese patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Methods The revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) was used in the present study. A cross-sectional, descriptive design was employed. The study was conducted in four major hospitals in Guangzhou (China) with a sample of 193 MI patients. Pearson's and Spearman's correlation, t test, one-way ANOVA, factor analysis and multiple linear regression were used. Results Among the 12 common symptoms of MI, on average only 3.37 were recognized by the subjects. Among the six factors of the cause dimension, "immune factors" received the highest score, followed by "gene and chance", "behavioral factors", "psychological factors", "environmental factors", and "physical factors". Subjects perceived MI as a chronic, cyclic illness with serious consequences that could be controlled through treatment, and believed that they had a negative affective response to MI. Furthermore, the dimensions of patients' IP were correlated, and illness-related factors and socio-demographic factors acted as predictors of IP. Conclusion The IP of Chinese patients with MI needs to be improved. Practice implications Based on our findings, effective interventions can be designed to promote MI patients' IP to facilitate their coping strategies after an episode of MI. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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