Assessment of socio-psychological risk factors for cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Purpose: to study the psychological characteristics of COVID-19 in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Materials and research methods. The study included patients: patients with CVD, in the post-COVID period. Results. The results showed that in patients with CVD after suffering COVID-19, there is an increase in patients with subclinical and clinically significant anxiety compared with patients with previous COVID-19 without CVD. Also draws attention to the increase in the level of depression among the respondents. Thus, the level of clinically expressed depression pronounced changes in the psychophysiological status: according to the HADS scale, subclinical anxiety is determined 4.5 times more often, subclinical depression and clinical anxiety are diagnosed only in this group.