Coronary artery diseases including myocardial infarction (MI) have been recognized as a major health problem in the world. The patients may experience mental and emotional problems like depression and anxiety at different periods of hospitalization that can negatively affect other important characteristics and medical parameters in patients with myocardial infarction and increase patients’ spiritual needs. Is there any association of spiritual wellbeing with anxiety and depression of patients with myocardial infarction? Coronary artery diseases including myocardial infarction (MI) have been recognized as a major health problem in the world. The patients may experience mental and emotional problems like depression and anxiety at different periods of hospitalization that can negatively affect other important characteristics and medical parameters in patients with myocardial infarction and increase patients’ spiritual needs. Is there any association of spiritual wellbeing with anxiety and depression of patients with myocardial infarction?
Dear Nader,
These links may interest you:
Religious Involvement, Spirituality, and Medicine: Implications for Clinical Practice
- Spiritual Well-Being and Depression in Patients with Heart Failure
- The effect of spiritual care on spiritual health of patients with cardiac ischemia
- Religion, Spirituality, and Health: The Research and Clinical Implications
- Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction: Influence of culture and place
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62799-7/fulltext?refuid=S0025-6196(11)60090-6&refissn=0025-6196
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1829421/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3696210/
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2012/278730/
http://www.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros2/files/seminario_dgroleau_02.pdf
Remember the words of Napoleon's surgeon: "At winners in the battle wounds heal faster than those of the vanquished." Mental state of a person is very important to mobilize the body's defenses.
Please have a look some papers in the attachment.
Dear Nader
This is study from Pakistan, near your country Iran. The journal is local. but just have a look in the introduction portion of this paper, stats portion is quite hi-tech for me. plz see some of the references too
Any emotional state may depress digestive functions and promote bacterial growth in small intestine. Prevention consists in decreasing or nullifying energy intake as long as the emotional crisis is present!
Dear Mario.
What is the role of spiritual wellbeing in your answer?!
really also the meaning of spiritual well being is not so much clear. Brain entrainment with Alpha stimulation should be of help.
Yes, the meaning of spiritual well being is not so much clear. But in spite of many comments, it appears that is an effective method for treatment and care of MI patients and their psychological problems.
Dear Vladimir,
Mental state of a person is very important to mobilize the body's defenses. But we should careful about the concepts that organize mental states of a person!