Longitudinal investigation of post-traumatic growth and rumination in patients with coronary heart disease after percutaneous coronary intervention / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To describe the changes of post-traumatic growth and rumination in coronary heart disease patients at different time points after PCI, and to analyze the correlation between them in order to provide evidence for personalized intervention.Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted, a total of 234 patients with coronary heart disease who underwent PCI for the first time in the Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University from December 2021 to October 2022 were studied by convenience sampling. The general data questionnaire, the Chinese version of the Event-Related Rumination Inventory and the simplified Chinese version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory were used to survey before discharge (T 0), first month after surgery (T 1), and three months after surgery (T 2). Results:The total scores of post-traumatic growth at the time point of T 0, T 1 and T 2 were 53.08 ± 13.47, 54.77 ± 11.20 and 59.32 ± 7.95, the difference was statistically significant ( F = 78.45, P<0.01). The scores of instrusive rumination at the time point of T 0, T 1 and T 2 were 14.92 ± 6.07, 15.78 ± 4.64 and 12.31 ± 3.38, the difference was statistically significant ( F = 46.58, P<0.01). The scores of deliberate rumination were 14.63 ± 4.74, 15.52 ± 3.93 and 17.86 ± 3.70, the difference was statistically significant ( F = 76.20, P<0.01). Instrusive rumination at T 0, T 1 and deliberate rumination at each point were positively correlated with the total score of post-traumatic growth ( r values were 0.229 to 0.414, all P<0.01). Instrusive rumination at T 2 was negatively correlated with posttraumatic growth scores ( r = -0.351, P<0.01). The deliberate rumination at T 2 time point was positively correlated with the total score of post-traumatic growth ( r = 0.403, P<0.01). Conclusions:The level of posttraumatic growth in patients with coronary heart disease after PCI needs to be improved, and targeted intervention should be planned early to change patients′pessimistic cognition caused by the disease, promote the development of positive thinking, then promote their posttraumatic growth.