Depression, anxiety and quality of life in newly diagnosed hypertensive patients / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Fifty outpatients of newly diagnosed hypertension (NDH,with course of disease ≤ 3 months) and 50 patients with routinely revisit hypertension (RRH,with course of disease ≥ 1 year) were consecutively enrolled respectively from February 2010 to July 2010.They were asked to complete the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI),Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the SF-36 questionnaire.The results showed that compared with the RRH group,the NDH group were more worried about being diagnosed as hypertension,dependence and side effects of antihypertensive drugs and complications of hypertension (all P ＜ 0.05).The NDH group displayed significantly higher level of anxiety compared with that of the RRH group (P ＜ 0.001).No significant differences were found in depression and 8 dimensions of SF-36 forms between two groups (P ＞ 0.05).The results indicated that patients of NDH have significant higher level of anxiety than that of RRH,they should be given more psychological intervention and appropriate health education.