Illness Perceptions in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Patients and Their Association With Heart-Focussed Anxiety.

BACKGROUND To our knowledge this was the first study aimed at examining the associations between illness perceptions and heart-focussed anxiety amongst individuals with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The secondary aim of this study was to examine the contribution of demographic, clinical and lifestyle factors to heart-focussed anxiety in this patient group. METHODS This cross-sectional sample of 153 patients, recruited through social media platforms, completed the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), Cardiac-Focussed Anxiety Questionnaire (CAQ) as well as questionnaires covering demographic, lifestyle and clinical factors. RESULTS Hierarchical regression analyses found that illness perceptions significantly accounted for variability in heart-focussed anxiety beyond the effects of clinical, demographic and lifestyle factors. Illness perceptions accounted for 22% of the variability in heart-focussed anxiety, while demographic factors accounted for 12%, and lifestyle and clinical parameters accounted for 17%. CONCLUSIONS Whilst longitudinal studies are warranted to confirm these findings, psychological interventions grounded in the Common-Sense Model may have the potential to better support patients coping with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy related anxiety.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Heart, Lung and Circulation

• Publication date

  2020-09-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.hlc.2020.08.009PMID 32952037
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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