Investigation of sociopsychological status and its influence factors in cardiac-pacing patients

Objective: To investigate the sociopsychological status and its related influence factors. Method: SCL-90 (Symptom Checklist 90) was used for evaluating the psychological status of the patients. The total factors score 160 or the single factor score 2 suggested the patient has psychological problem. SAS(Self-Rating Anxiety Scale), SDS (Self-Rating Depression Scale) and SSRS (Social Support Scale) were used for rating the situation in anxiety, depression and social-supporting respectively. The scores in anxiety, depression and social-supporting of cadiac-pacing patients were compared respectively with those of the control. Result: The SCL-90 showed the 125 cardiac-pacing patients had serious psychological problems in five factors: anxiety (60 patients), somatization (57 patients), phobic anxiety (38 patients), depression (55 patients), interpersonal sensitivity(34 patients). All of the factors scores were respectively significant higher than those of the corresponding normal (P 0.01). The scores of SAS and SDS of the patients were also significantly higher than those of the control (P 0.01). However the score of SSRS was significantly lower than that of the control(P 0.01). Multistep regressive analysis showed the income, the severity of the disease, the interpersonal relation and the living of the family were markedly related to the total score of the SCL-90. Conclusion: Cardiac-pacing patients have obvious psychological problems in anxiety, somatization, phobic anxiety, depression, interpersonal sensitivity and social supporting. The income, the severity of the disease, the interpersonal relation and the living of the family were markedly related to the psychological status.