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Florida Shock Anxiety Scale for Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator – Appreciating the Psychosocial Aspects

Eduardo Arrais Rocha et al. Ieda Prata Costa

The published study provides an important scale, already in its Brazilian Portuguese version and that has been validated for our population, which allows assessing the level of anxiety related to the presence of the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) and the shocks applied by the device.

This scale, as well emphasized in the study by Silva et al., was not designed to assess aspects of the patient’s adaptation to the ICD, or even its impacts on patient quality of life, and there is another scale that is appropriate for this purpose, such as the FPAS – Florida Patient Acceptance Survey.

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Original Article

Resilience in Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease

Conceição Maria Martins de Lemos et al. David William Moraes Lucia Campos Pellanda

Background:

Resilience is a psychosocial factor associated with clinical outcomes in chronic diseases. The relationship between this protective factor and certain diseases, such heart diseases, is still under-explored.

Objective:

The present study sought to investigate the frequency of resilience in individuals with ischemic heart disease.

Method:

This was a cross-sectional study with 133 patients of both genders, aged between 35 and 65 years, treated at Rio Grande do Sul Cardiology Institute – Cardiology University Foundation, with a diagnosis of ischemic heart disease during the study period. Sixty-seven patients had a history of acute myocardial infarction. The individuals were interviewed and evaluated by the Wagnild & Young resilience scale and a sociodemographic questionnaire.

Results:

Eighty-one percent of patients were classified as resilient according to the scale.

Conclusion:

In the sample studied, resilience was identified in high proportion among patients with ischemic heart disease.