Análise das condições do estresse em pacientes com diagnóstico de doença cardiovascular

Abstract

This study had as purpose to evaluate the presence and the conditions of the stress in patients diagnosed with cardiovascular disease and to make a correlation with anxiety, depression, and quality of life. It refers to a descriptive and quantitative study developed with 83 patients at the Francisca Mendes University Hospital, located in the city of Manaus-AM. The data collection began in the last quarter of 2011 and extended until the first quarter of 2012, just after the approval of the ethics committee of Federal University of Amazonas. For this procedure used the following instruments: structured questionnaire with sociodemographic variables, Stress Symptoms Inventory by Lipp (ISSL), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Quality of Life Questionnaire-short form (WHOQOL-Bref). After collecting, it was used Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS 17 for realization of the statistical treatment. It was used Pearson correlation coefficient in the analyses. As a result, it was found that there was a predominance of males, married, retired, with a mean age of 57,6 years, with schooling up to 4 years, with a mean treatment time of 12,7 months and primarily for myocardial revascularization surgery. It was observed the presence of stress among 67,5% of participants in study, psychological symptoms overlapped the physical ones, and most prominent the Resistance phase with 45,8%, while the exhaustion phase was13,3%. Most had minimal anxiety (63,8%), lack of depression (61,4%) and good quality of life (overall average score 81,82). The analytical statistics demonstrated by Pearson Correlation that the more elevated is the quality of life in each dimension, lower the stress indicator. The symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress are statistically strongly correlated in the population of cardiac patients in the study. This finding pointed to the evaluation of the stress as strong predictable factor for anxiety and depression symptomatology.