Psychological features in cardiovascular patients

To study psychological features of patients with coronary heart disease (CRD) or acquired valvular heart disease (AVHD), and to find effective methods of psychotherapy, 51 in-patients (31 individuals with CRD, and 14 with AVHD) treated in Arkhangelsk clinics were examined. For CRD patients, tendency...

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Main Authors: I. A. Novikova, A. G. Solovjev, P. I. Sidorov
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Russian
Published: «FIRMA «SILICEA» LLC 2004
Subjects:
coronary heart disease
acquired valvular heart disease
effective psychotherapeutic correction
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
RC666-701
Arkhangelsk
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/e8646771f5cf4a18a7ac762f1414c2fd
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Summary:To study psychological features of patients with coronary heart disease (CRD) or acquired valvular heart disease (AVHD), and to find effective methods of psychotherapy, 51 in-patients (31 individuals with CRD, and 14 with AVHD) treated in Arkhangelsk clinics were examined. For CRD patients, tendency of following existed social standards, «escape into work», orientation on extraneous success criteria were typical. Patients with AVHD were characterised by orientation on emotinal values, «escape into dreams», high value of emotional relations with others. Therefore, psychotherapeutic correction in cardiac patients should be differentiated.

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