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, Soraya Etemadi , Tahereh Dehdari , Masood Gholamali Lavasani , Said Sadeghian
Background: Given the increase in prevalence of Coronary
Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery and the significant role of psychological
factors in prognosis and relapse of cardiac disease, the present study is
designed to determine the relationship between psychological factors or
impotency and quality of life of male patients following CABG.
Methods: In this descriptive- analytical study 160
male patients were randomly selected four weeks after heart surgery and were
administered DASS-21, IIEF-5 and SF-36 to assess anxiety, depression and stress,
impotency and quality of life, respectively. Regression analyses (One-way
ANOVA) and Chi-square were performed to analyze the data.
Results: Findings showed that the average age of
patients was 60 (±10) years. Among psychological variables the average score
for depression was significantly related to the average scores of quality of
life (p=0.02). Furthermore, 62.4% of patients had some degrees of depression
86.7% had some degrees of stress and 47.3% had anxiety to some degree. Also,
85.5% of patients displayed mild to severe levels of erectile dysfunction which
were significantly correlated with scores in anxiety (p=0.03) and depression
(p=0.001). Finally, diabetic patients had higher scores in depression and
stress compared to non diabetic patients.
Conclusion: The findings
are discussed in the context of proposing interventional strategies for
improving psychological conditions of CABG patients.
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