March 1, 2008Heart & LungOpen Access

Prevalence and predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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Population

400 patients with a previous acute index MI referred to a tertiary cardiology clinic, mean age 60 +/- 12…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

LWLina WiedemarUniversity of Bern JSJean‐Paul SchmidPreventive Cardiology JMJulia MüllerUniversity of Freiburg

Discussion

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Implication

Supports PTSD screening post-MI; leaves open prospective validation of helplessness-targeted interventions.

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Population

400 patients with a previous acute index MI referred to a tertiary cardiology clinic, mean age 60 +/- 12 years, 79% men.

Outcome

Prevalence of full and subsyndromal PTSD assessed by the Clinician-administered PTSD Scale, and self-rated severity of PTSD symptom levels assessed by the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scalepatient reported

Approximately 10% of patients experience full or subsyndromal PTSD after an acute MI, with subjective feelings of helplessness and pain intensity during the event predicting symptom severity.

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Wiedemar et al. (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a73549e64decaab472c2939 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2007.03.005

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Prevalence and predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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Prevalence and predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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