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

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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