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Anxiety in patients with permanent cardiac pacemaker aged > 60 years old


Published: May 15, 2020
Keywords:
Pacemaker arrhythmia anxiety Zung scale
Stella Vasileiou
Moschoula Mina Iordani
Illias Martinis
Alexandra Nikitopoulou
Jona Sakiqi
Eleni Sekeroglou
Ilianna Tsampoula
Evangelos Dousis
Abstract

Introduction: A cardiac pacemaker is a small implanted device to control abnormal heart rhythms. According to estimates, 3 million individuals worldwide live with an implanted permanent pacemaker (PPM) while about 600 thousand pacemakers are implanted, annually.

Purpose: to explore anxiety of pacemaker recipients as well as all the associated demographic and self-reported characteristics.

Material and Method: 100 outpatients with PPM were enrolled in the study. Collection of data was performed by the completion of the “Self-rating Anxiety Scale Zung (SAS)” which included patients' characteristics.  

Results: From the 100 participants 65% were men, 66% were >70 years old, 60% married, 50,5% of primary education and 90% lived in Attica. In terms of anxiety, 50% of recipients scored less than 48 on SAS scale (wide of range: 20-80) indicating mild to low levels of anxiety. Regarding associated factors, anxiety was found to be statistically significantly associated with gender (p=<0,001), understanding of provided information (p=<0,001), understanding of precautions in electromagnetic fields (p=0,021), desire for more frequent and long term follow-up and devise assessment (p=<0,001 and p=<0,001, respectively).

Conclusions: Though pacemaker is an opportunity to prolong survival, however systematic assessment of anxiety and all the associated factors is considered to be of primary importance in clinical pacemaker settings.

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