Life-Stress Measurement of Cardiac Patient in Dhaka City

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the Life-Stress Measurement of Cardiac Patients and People with cardiac problem in Dhaka City. The purpose is to investigate the relationship of Life-Stress such as in social and psychological dimension. A total of 60 participants participated in t...

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Published inJournal of psychosocial research Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 129
Main Authors Saha, Asoke Kumar, Ali, Md Shajahan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Delhi Prints Publications Pvt. Ltd 01.01.2016
Subjects
Age
Blood pressure
Cardiovascular disease
Cholesterol
Coronary vessels
Diabetes
Health risk assessment
Heart attacks
Hypertension
Hypotheses
Low density lipoprotein
Mens health
Patients
Pessimism
Smoking
Tobacco
Womens health
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Summary:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the Life-Stress Measurement of Cardiac Patients and People with cardiac problem in Dhaka City. The purpose is to investigate the relationship of Life-Stress such as in social and psychological dimension. A total of 60 participants participated in the study. The participants were selected from different public hospitals and residence areas of Dhaka city as a purposive manner. Thus, purposive sampling technique was followed for the study. The instruments used in this study were demographic and personal information questionnaire and Bengali version of Life-Stress questionnaire originally developed by Cohen (1999), further it was adapted by Fahim (2001) in Bangladesh. The major hypothesis was that Life-Stress of cardiac patient will be more than people without cardiac problem. Results of correlation analysis shows that Life-Stress is positively correlated with cardiac patients and people without cardiac problem where (r = 0.512, p <.004). The t-test value of the both group shows (t = 3.60, p <.001).
ISSN:0973-5410
0976-3937