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| Published: March 25, 2016
Family Environment and Its Correlation with Anxiety and Depression: A Study on Heart Patients
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur Google Scholar More about the auther
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.109/20160302
DOI: 10.25215/0302.109
ABSTRACT
This research paper deals with the Family Environment and its Correlation with Anxiety and Depression level among persons with Heart Disease. There had been a number of researches that investigated that ischemic heart disease patients who suffer significant anxiety have close to a 5-fold increased risk of experiencing frequent angina and those with depression have more than a 3-fold increased risk for these episodes. This observed link between psychiatric symptoms and angina underlines the importance of treating anxiety and depression in cardiac patients, according to study co author Dr Mark D Sullivan (University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle). To gather the needed data, Hamilton Anxiety Scale and Becks Depression Inventory were used. As stated from literatures, for people with heart dysfunction, depression and anxiety can increase the risk of an adverse cardiac event such as a heart attack or blood clots. For people who do not have heart disease, depression and anxiety can also increase the risk of a heart attack and development of coronary artery disease. Researchers have also emphasized on the role of family psychosocial environment and its positive association with the Coronary Heart Disease risk.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016 I M Jain, S Chandalia
Received: January 30, 2016; Revision Received: February 22, 2016; Accepted: March 25, 2016
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.109/20160302
10.25215/0302.109
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 2, January-March, 2016