Jeffrey L Birk, Talea Cornelius, Ian M Kronish, Ari Shechter, Keith M Diaz, Joseph E Schwartz, Othanya G Garcia, Gaspar J Cruz, Kaitlin Shaw, Gabriel J Sanchez, Sachin Agarwal, Donald Edmondson
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PSS) due to acute cardiac events are common and may lead patients to avoid secondary prevention behaviors. However, patients' daily experience of cardiac event-induced PSS has not been studied after a potentially traumatic cardiac hospitalization. METHOD: In an observational cohort study, 108 mostly male patients with coronary heart disease were recruited after evaluation for suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). One month later, PSS were assessed via telephone-administered PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)...
December 30, 2023: General Hospital Psychiatry