Effects of type D personality on anxiety, depression and quality of life of hospitalized patients with coronary heart disease / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

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Objective To explore the relationship between type D personality,anxiety and depression of coronary heart disease(CHD) and the effects on quality of life (QOL).Methods 296 CHD patients were randomly chosen to answer the questionnaires of general situation,type D personality scale (DS14),Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36).Results Of all subjects 37.2％ were identified as type D personality,detection rates of anxiety and depression was were higher than the patients with non-type D personality (33.6％ vs 14.0％,49.1％ vs 23.1％,separately) (P＜ 0.01).The scores of role-physical (RP),bodily pain (BP),general health (GH),vitality (VT),social functioning (SF),role-emotional(RE),mental health (MH) in patients with type D personality ((32.73 ± 42.52),(57.68 ± 26.93),(42.14 ±18.23),(47.15 ±22.60),(59.43 ±26.67),(45.91 ±46.22),(49.25 ±22.21),separately) were lower than the patients with non-type D personality ((56.00 ± 46.61),(64.62 ± 22.27),(48.27 ± 19.19),(61.56 ±20.17),(69.70 ± 24.35),(70.79 ± 44.53),(70.52 ± 18.91),separately) (P＜0.05 or 0.01).Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that depression,type D personality,anxiety,coronary artery stenosis degree and degree of education were entered QOL regression equation(β =-16.31,-6.53,-7.69,-15.75,2.64,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion The type D personality of CHD exist high prevalence of anxiety and depression disorders,and the type D personality influence the QOL of patients with CHD.