Vivência de perdas: relação entre eventos significativos, luto e depressão, em pacientes internados com doença arterial coronariana / Experience of losses: relation between significatives events, mourning and depression, in hospitalized patients with coronary artery disease

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Since the attendance of hospitalized cardiac patients was created the category experience of losses caused by significative(s) event(s) that implicated in the mourning process. According to Freud (1916), mourning is a psychic process that requires time for the loss elaboration and changing of the psychic reality, shaped by the lost object missing. Mourning is understood as a psychodynamic correlation of the manifested depression reaction. On this basis, this research aimed: investigate experience of losses, mourning and depression. 44 patients with medical diagnosis of severe heart attack and angina were evaluated, from 33 to 65 years old, 50% women and 50 % men. Three instruments were used: semi-structured interview for mourning evaluation; Beck Depression Inventory, for depression; Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale, which evaluates the probability of presenting health problems. The results were treated by the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 11.0 . 65,9% presented state of mourning and the association between : mourning and depression were significative (p<0,05); mourning and gender (p=0,000), presented in 90,9% of the women; depression and gender (p<0,05). The significative events more frequently reported were: death of a relative 47%, or closer person 13%. It is also significative the statistical relation between mourning and deaths related by the participants as significative event (p<0,05). Experience of losses is suggested as indicative of psychological risk for coronary artery disease, highlighting the association with mourning and depression

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depressão coronariopatia depression hospitalized patients/psychology entrevista psicológica pacientes internados/psicologia coronary disease psychological interview

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