Psychiatric Morbidities, Personality Temperament and Coping Style in a Sample of Egyptian Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease

Abstract

Results: Following the screening, SCID was done for diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. And follow up SCID was done one month later. Our results shows statically significance difference between group A , group B ,group C and the control as regard psychiatric disorders inculding depression and anxiety with (p value <0.001) and also follow up SCID shows statically significance difference (p value <0.001) Conclusion: our results suggested screening for psychiatric disorders in Ischemic heart disease patients as they were more prevalent in CHD than in normal population. Keywords: Ischemic heart diseases (IHD), Depression , Coping , personality , comorbidities .