Mental health of the spouses of cardiovascular patients

ABSTRACT

The present research is conducted in order to investigate the mental health of the wives of husbands with cardiovascular diseases and the wives of normal husbands. IPAT ANXIETY and IPAT DEPRESSION scales were administered to 100 wives and they were asked to mention their demographic data. It was hypothesized that wives of husbands with cardiovascular diseases will obtain high Sten scores on depression and anxiety scales as compared to wives of normal husbands. 100 participants were divided into two groups out of which 50 wives were of the patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases and 50 wives were of the normal individuals. Chi-square test was applied for the statistical analysis of the data. The results of the present study show that the wives of cardiovascular husbands are more depressed [x[2] = 33.74, df= 1, p<.001] and anxious [x[2] = 33.96, df= 1, p<.001] than the wives of normal husbands