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Background: Long-term chronic diseases such as AIDS, cancer and heart
disease affect patients’ attitude, always create crises in individuals’ life.
The main purpose of this study was to compare the situation resiliency and
depression in cardiac patients with healthy People.
Methods: During
a descriptive of causal–comparative study and using convenience sampling 106
cardiac patients (58 women and 48 men) were selected from Motahari Hospital in Jahrom
city in 2013. Also 102 healthy volunteers (52 females and 50 males) based on
demographic variables matched with the patient groups were selected. Beck
Depression Inventory and Resiliency
Scale and Connor Davison were administered to participants. Data
based on level of 95% were analyzed
using SPSS v.16.
Finding:
Independent t-test revealed a significant increase in depression scores and
significant reduction in resiliency between people with heart disease and
normal samples (p<0.001). In
addition, analysis of variances revealed that women are better than men at resiliency
(p<0.003). The
education level was positively associated with resiliency in coping with the
diseases (p<0.011).
Conclusion: resiliency plays mediating role in heart disease outset,
and its low levels are as a risk factor for people with cardiovascular disease.
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