Key result
Heart-focused anxiety post-diagnosis involves fear and avoidance driving reassurance-seeking and adverse health outcomes.
Why the study?
Heart-focused anxiety is a common experience among patients after myocardial infarction but is rarely addressed in nursing research.
This concept analysis provides an updated definition of heart-focused anxiety to guide future nursing and multidisciplinary research.
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May enhance post-MI nursing recognition of heart-focused anxiety; leaves open validation and intervention trials.
Although heart-focused anxiety is a common experience of patients following a myocardial infarction, it is one rarely addressed in nursing research. I used Rodger's evolutionary method of concept analysis to review uses of heart-focused anxiety in literature from several disciplines including nursing and synthesized a definition to guide future research. Heart-focused anxiety is an experience of avoidance, fear, and heart-focused attention that follows from cardiac diagnoses, somatic symptoms, and familial factors and results in adverse health outcomes, reassurance seeking, disruption of life, and recurrent chest pain. Although heart-focused anxiety is an evolving concept, the updated definition should help provide a foundation for future research. A Supplemental Digital Content video abstract is available at http://links.lww.com/ANS/A32.
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Pamela Barthle (2021) conducted a review in Heart-focused anxiety following myocardial infarction. Concept analysis of heart-focused anxiety was evaluated on Definition and synthesis of heart-focused anxiety. Heart-focused anxiety is defined as an experience of avoidance, fear, and heart-focused attention following cardiac diagnoses that results in adverse health outcomes and reassurance seeking.
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