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May 1, 2012The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

The Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire: Cross-Validation among Cardiac Inpatients

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Why the study?

Is the Dutch version of the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire a reliable and valid instrument to assess heart-focused anxiety in patients hospitalized with ACS?

Population

237 patients admitted for an acute coronary syndrome and a control group of 49 patients admitted for an…

Comparison

Dutch version of the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire vs Control group of patients with rheumatoid…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

MBM.H.C.T. van BeekNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceRVRichard C. Oude VoshaarUniversity Medical Center GroningenFDFemke M. van DeelenRadboud University Nijmegen

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Implication

Dutch CAQ supports heart-focused anxiety assessment in ACS; leaves open prognostic value pending longitudinal studies.

Structured PICO

Is the Dutch version of the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire a reliable and valid instrument to assess heart-focused anxiety in patients hospitalized with ACS?

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Population
237 patients admitted for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and a control group of 49 patients admitted for an exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
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Intervention
Dutch version of the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire (CAQ)
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Comparator
Control group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis
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Outcome
Factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Dutch version of the CAQpatient reported

The Dutch version of the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire is a reliable and valid tool for assessing heart-focused anxiety in ACS patients, enabling future research on its prognostic impact.

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Beek et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7dd2b802c864aefccb4de1https://doi.org/10.2190/pm.43.4.e
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