ArticleDepression and anxiety2008
Cardiac anxiety in people with and without coronary atherosclerosis.
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- The associations between psychological distress and health-related quality of life in patients with non-cardiac chest pain.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2020Article
- Illness perception in overweight and obese patients with cardiovascular diseases.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Heart-Focused Anxiety Among Latinxs in Primary Care: Relations to Anxiety, Depression, Pain, and Functional Impairment.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2019Article
- Identifying the Internalizing Disorder Clusters Among Recently Hospitalized Cardiovascular Disease Patients: A Receiver Operating Characteristics Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- The associations between psychological distress and healthcare use in patients with non-cardiac chest pain: does a history of cardiac disease matter?BMC psychiatry · 2018Article
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- Brazilian Portuguese validated version of the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2013Article
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Abstract
Many studies have shown that cardiac anxiety when occurring in the absence of coronary artery disease is common and quite costly. The Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire (CAQ) is an 18-item self-report measure that assesses anxiety related to cardiac symptoms. To better understand the construct of cardiac anxiety, a factor analysis was conducted on CAQ data from 658 individuals who were self or physician-referred for electron beam tomographic screening to determine whether clinically significant coronary atherosclerosis was present. A four-factor solution was judged to provide the best fit with the results reflecting the following factor composition: heart-focused attention, avoidance of activities that bring on symptoms, worry or fear regarding symptoms, and reassurance-seeking. Factorial invariance across groups was also assessed to determine whether the factor structure of the CAQ was similar in individuals with and without clear evidence of coronary atherosclerosis. The factor structure of the CAQ did not differ between the two groups. However, the group without coronary atherosclerosis had significantly higher mean scores on their attention and worry/fear factors suggesting that people without a diagnosed cardiac condition pay more attention to and worry more about their cardiac-related symptoms than those people who have coronary atherosclerosis.
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