Coping strategies, life style changes, and pessimism after open-heart surgery

Hasida Ben-Zur; Batya Rappaport; Ronny Ammar; Gideon Uretzky

doi:10.1093/hsw/25.3.201

Coping strategies, life style changes, and pessimism after open-heart surgery

Hasida Ben-Zur, Batya Rappaport, Ronny Ammar, Gideon Uretzky

School of Social Work

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Abstract

A mail questionnaire was completed by 171 patients two to 20 months after undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). The post-CABG period was characterized by fewer working hours, a higher level of physical exercise, a reduction in smoking, and more appropriate nutritional habits, compared with the preoperation period. At the same time, the anxiety level of post-CABG patients was higher than that measured in a community sample. Post-CABG high psychological distress (anxiety and mood states) and low functional capacity were associated with high levels of pessimism and ineffective emotion-focused coping strategies.. These results may be used by social workers in devising psychological interventions aimed at improving post-CABG patients' quality of life and bolstering their coping strategies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	201-209
Number of pages	9
Journal	Health and Social Work
Volume	25
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/25.3.201
State	Published - Aug 2000

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
senior lecturer, School of Social Work, and staff member, Ray D. Wolfe Centre for Study of Psychological Stress, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; e-mail: [email protected]. Batya Rappaport, MSW, is senior medical social worker, and Ronny Ammar, MD, is senior surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa; Gideon Uretzky, MD, is head and professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa. The authors thank Moshe Zeidner for his agreement to the use of the community sample data in the present research. Sharon Cohen and Yfat Ravid were most helpful in data coding. We also thank the medical and nursing staff of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Carmel Medical Centre for their help during various stages of the research. This work was supported by the Ray D. Wolfe Centre for Study of Psychological Stress, University of Haifa.

Keywords

Coping strategies
Distress
Open-heart surgery
Pessimism
Rehabilitation

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