Why the study?
Open-heart surgery is a stressful, life-threatening experience inducing fear and anxiety, creating a need to design an inventory to assess stressors in these patients and evaluate its psychometric properties.
The newly developed 50-item Cardiac Surgery Stressor Inventory is a valid and reliable tool for measuring stressors in open-heart surgery patients in an Iranian context.
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May support stressor assessment in open-heart surgery; leaves open clinical utility pending prospective validation.
Sedaghat et al. (2019) studied this question.
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