Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients.
Patients diagnosed with coronary heart disease should follow lifestyle recommendations that can reduce their cardiovascular risk (e.g., avoid smoking). However, some patients fail to follow these recommendations and engage in unhealthy behavior. With the aim to identify psychosocial factors that cha...
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| author | Mercedes Arrebola-Moreno Dafina Petrova María-José Sánchez Ricardo Rivera-López José Antonio Ramírez-Hernández |
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| description | Patients diagnosed with coronary heart disease should follow lifestyle recommendations that can reduce their cardiovascular risk (e.g., avoid smoking). However, some patients fail to follow these recommendations and engage in unhealthy behavior. With the aim to identify psychosocial factors that characterize patients at high risk of repeated cardiovascular events, we investigated the relationship between social support, mental health (coping, self-esteem, and perceived stress), and unhealthy behavior. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 419 patients recently diagnosed with coronary heart disease (myocardial infarction or angina) who participated in the National Health Survey in Spain (2018). Unhealthy behaviors were defined according to the European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention. Only 1% of patients reported no unhealthy behaviors, with 11% reporting one, 40% two, 35% three, and 13% four or more unhealthy behaviors. In multiple regression controlling for demographic and traditional risk factors, mental health was the only significant psychosocial factor, doubling the odds of accumulated unhealthy behaviors, OR(high vs. low) = 2.03, 95% CI [1.14, 3.64]. Mental health was especially strongly related to unhealthy behavior among patients with obesity, OR(high vs. low) = 3.50, 95% CI [1.49, 8.45]. The relationship between mental health and unhealthy behaviors suggests that a large proportion of patients may not adhere to lifestyle recommendations not because they purposefully choose to do so, but because they lack coping skills to maintain the recommended healthy behaviors. Low mental well-being may be especially detrimental for behavior change of patients with obesity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-883a414d227b44079eedc78eee3909882022-12-21T17:34:06ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032020-01-01151e022826210.1371/journal.pone.0228262Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients.Mercedes Arrebola-MorenoDafina PetrovaMaría-José SánchezRicardo Rivera-LópezJosé Antonio Ramírez-HernándezPatients diagnosed with coronary heart disease should follow lifestyle recommendations that can reduce their cardiovascular risk (e.g., avoid smoking). However, some patients fail to follow these recommendations and engage in unhealthy behavior. With the aim to identify psychosocial factors that characterize patients at high risk of repeated cardiovascular events, we investigated the relationship between social support, mental health (coping, self-esteem, and perceived stress), and unhealthy behavior. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 419 patients recently diagnosed with coronary heart disease (myocardial infarction or angina) who participated in the National Health Survey in Spain (2018). Unhealthy behaviors were defined according to the European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention. Only 1% of patients reported no unhealthy behaviors, with 11% reporting one, 40% two, 35% three, and 13% four or more unhealthy behaviors. In multiple regression controlling for demographic and traditional risk factors, mental health was the only significant psychosocial factor, doubling the odds of accumulated unhealthy behaviors, OR(high vs. low) = 2.03, 95% CI [1.14, 3.64]. Mental health was especially strongly related to unhealthy behavior among patients with obesity, OR(high vs. low) = 3.50, 95% CI [1.49, 8.45]. The relationship between mental health and unhealthy behaviors suggests that a large proportion of patients may not adhere to lifestyle recommendations not because they purposefully choose to do so, but because they lack coping skills to maintain the recommended healthy behaviors. Low mental well-being may be especially detrimental for behavior change of patients with obesity.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228262 |
| spellingShingle | Mercedes Arrebola-Moreno Dafina Petrova María-José Sánchez Ricardo Rivera-López José Antonio Ramírez-Hernández Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients. PLoS ONE |
| title | Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients. |
| title_full | Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients. |
| title_fullStr | Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients. |
| title_short | Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients. |
| title_sort | who does what the cardiologist recommends psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228262 |
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