Article: The impact of anxiety level on decision to seek medical care of non-COVID cardiac patients during the pandemic outbreak-single-center experience in Israel.
Reviews in cardiovascular medicine
2022 Volume 23, Issue 2, Page(s) 50
Abstract: Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly the delivery of healthcare all around the world. In part, an abnormal and unexplained high non-COVID-related cardiovascular mortality rate was reported during the outbreak. We assess the ... ...
| Abstract | Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly the delivery of healthcare all around the world. In part, an abnormal and unexplained high non-COVID-related cardiovascular mortality rate was reported during the outbreak. We assess the correlation between anxiety level and decision to seek medical care (DSMC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods: We recruited patients with cardiovascular complaints admitted to the emergency department in a single institute in Israel between February and September 2020. Anxiety level was measured using available questionnaires. DSMC was assessed with a newly designed questionnaire (DM-19). Results: Two-hundreds seventy patients were included in the study. The mean age was 52.6 ± 14.9 (females represent 36.2%). 23.6% of the patients had at least moderate cardiovascular risk. High anxiety levels were (HAL) reported in nearly half of the patients (57.1% and 49.8% for General Anxiety Disorder Assessment [GAD-7] and Beck Anxiety Inventory [BAI], respectively). It was more prevalent in old, married, and unemployed patients (significant Conclusions: We observed an abnormal prevalence of a high level of anxiety among non-COVID patients with cardiovascular complaints, which affected the patient's likelihood to seek medical care and resulted in an unreasonable postponement of medical treatment. Our results may explain cardiovascular mortality trends during the outbreak and should be considered in health crisis management. Future studies will involve multi-institutional efforts to address reproducibility of our findings across geographic regions in the state of the global impact. Additionally, it is imperative to understand the effects of the coronavirus vaccine on patient consideration to seek medical care. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Adult ; Aged ; Anxiety/diagnosis ; Anxiety/epidemiology ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Depression/epidemiology ; Disease Outbreaks ; Female ; Humans ; Israel/epidemiology ; Middle Aged ; Pandemics ; Reproducibility of Results ; SARS-CoV-2 | |||||
| Chemical Substances | COVID-19 Vaccines | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2022-02-28 | |||||
| Publishing country | Singapore | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 2108910-3 | |||||
| ISSN | 1530-6550 | |||||
| ISSN | 1530-6550 | |||||
| DOI | 10.31083/j.rcm2302050 | |||||
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