Surveying the Intensity of Perceived Stress and its Relation with Some of Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors in Patients with Myocardial Infarction

摘要

Stress is one of the factors that may be accompanied with the increase of the possibility of cardiovascular diseases. This research is aimed to survey the relationships between the rate of perceived stress with the other factors causing cardiovascular diseases in patients confined in myocardial infarction. In this cross sectional descriptive-analytic research, 800 patients with myocardial infarction diseases who were hospitalized in Ghaem and Imam Reza Hospitals in Mashhad were chosen randomly. To collect data, a questionnaire was used to gather their demographic characteristics a questionnaire for perceived stress and a form to record laboratorial test and ECG changes? results. The results of this research showed that 45% of the patients were suffering of moderate stress and 55% of intensive stress. Also, finding of the research indicated that there were significant differences between the mean of stress level in the various categories of the variables such as; sex, education, blood pressure, the history of hypertension, diabetes, cigarette smoking, exercising, job and family history of myocardial diseases. Regarding the high level of perceived stress in patients with myocardial infarction, it is necessary to devise a program and determine stressor factors to decrease or remove them.