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Abstract

The structural relationship between some psychological factors (relief and dysfunctional attitudes) with indicators of physical and psychological recovery in patients after cardiac surgery

Zahra Emam, Amrollah Ebrahimi and Seyed Mohammad Hassan Kalantar Motamedi

Biomedical community has increasingly found the importance of psychological factors in the natural history of disorders, the prevention from disability, disease and progression. Among the important psychological factors, psychological stress, hostility, anxiety and depression, coping mechanisms can be mentioned. The aim of this study is to investigate the causes of psychopathology, cognitive psychology and positive indicators of recovery after heart surgery. With respect to the nature of the title and the aim of study, the researcher used the correlation method in the present study. The sample study of the present study consisted of all patients referred to Jamaran Tehran Heart Centered to perform heart surgery in the first half of 1391 and for example, 43 cases of non-random sampling were selected. The researcher used instruments of this study on the bases of four main variables Interpersonal forgiveness scale (IFI-25), dysfunctional attitudes (DAS-26), depression, anxiety and stress (DASS-21), cardiac index. Statistical analysis employed by using GIS software and descriptive and inferential statistics follow SPSS: Pearson correlation and regression analysis methods, respectively. The results showed that the increasing depressive attitudes lead to enhances immunity, and reduces depression, anxiety and stress respectively. More precisely, the three subscales relief: re-connect, control and understanding of offense realistic, three variables control the pain with depression, anxiety and stress has a negative relation with a realistic, and understanding of the variables showed a significant negative relationship with anxiety. In addition, relief and physical improvement of dysfunctional attitudes can predict postoperative. The results also showed that depression, anxiety and stress can predicted for fever, pain, and shortness of breath after their surgery. Based on the findings of the present study, it is suggested that in addition to medical care in the prevention and treatment of emotional state of the patients treated with medical problems because many psychological factors involved in the response of heart disease and improve patients' and particularly anxiety and depression, stress independent of traditional risk factors affecting the recovery of heart patients.