Psychiatric morbidity antedating myocardial infarction was associated with being unmarried, unemployed, and having higher neuroticism and psychoticism scores compared to the other groups.
Observational
Psychological symptoms precipitated by an acute myocardial infarction tend to be transient and occur in patients demographically similar to psychologically healthy individuals, unlike symptoms in patients with pre-existing psychiatric morbidity.
Three groups of patients were identified during a study of men who had recently suffered an acute myocardial infarction: those with psychiatric morbidity antedating the infarction and those with no significant psychopathology. Compared to the other two groups, patients with psychiatric morbidity before the infarction were more likely to be unmarried, unemployed and to have received previous psychiatric treatment. They also obtained higher scores for neuroticism and psychoticism on personality assessment. Patients whose symptoms have been precipitated by the infarction resembled the psychologically healthy group with regard to their demographic characteristics and personality. Their symptoms tended to be transient, improving without special psychiatric treatment.
Lloyd et al. (Tue,) conducted a observational in Acute myocardial infarction. Psychiatric morbidity before myocardial infarction vs. Symptoms precipitated by infarction or no psychopathology was evaluated on Demographic characteristics and personality assessment scores. Psychiatric morbidity antedating myocardial infarction was associated with being unmarried, unemployed, and having higher neuroticism and psychoticism scores compared to the other groups.