How to help patients with coronary artery disease overcome adverse psychological reactions?

When people reach a certain age, their hearts are subject to a variety of surprising conditions. As the age of onset of coronary heart disease becomes younger, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to the impact of this disease on their lives and work. Emotions are a manifestation of psychological factors, and emotions affect the occurrence, development and prognosis of coronary heart disease. Therefore, we must overcome the adverse psychological reactions while treating the disease, which is more conducive to recovery. People who are prone to anger, like competition, impatient and lack of patience, eager for success and nervousness are four times more likely to have coronary heart disease, while the occurrence of angina pectoris, arrhythmia and acute myocardial infarction are closely related to mood changes. Therefore, once suffering from coronary heart disease need to pay attention to psychological treatment, improve the patient’s psychological state. 1.Patient persuasion and guidance Some patients are irritable and some are silent and unhappy, so the psychological characteristics and needs of different patients should be addressed, eliminating abnormal psychology and psychological burden, helping them to establish confidence in overcoming the disease and accepting treatment and care with an optimistic attitude. 2. Warm and caring care When the patient’s condition allows, nursing staff should contact and talk with the patient more often, infect the patient with a warm, cheerful, positive and optimistic attitude, make all kinds of basic care, give thoughtful care, and make the patient get used to the environment quickly. At the same time, explain patiently to the patient’s family so that they can enhance their confidence and take the initiative to cooperate with the hospital to eliminate the patient’s psychological pressure. 3.Control and reduce predisposing factors Encourage obese patients to reduce weight, avoid high-calorie, high-cholesterol diet, and take high-fiber diet; assist patients with busy work schedules to adjust their daily lives, combine work and rest, develop the habit of going to bed early and waking up early to ensure sufficient sleep; assist patients to develop a daily physical activity plan to help improve coronary artery circulation, etc. 4.Proper application of preventive drugs Let patients and family members correctly understand the role and side effects of commonly used drugs (such as vasodilators, antiplatelet drugs and anti-arrhythmic drugs). 5.Correct poor health behavior Suggest patients to quit smoking and alcohol, avoid overeating, forceful defecation, eating high-fat diet, etc. Warm tip: Patients with coronary heart disease should change their bad habits, to face their disease with a positive attitude, with an open mind to face the “disease”, so as to reduce the complications of coronary heart disease and mortality.