Many clinics that treat different cardiac conditions are related to psychological support and support for these patients, so it is important not to separate one another from another.
Marcela Moreno Wilches
Agencia Latina de Noticias Medicina y Salud Pública
El Dr. Juan Carlos Ramos Arias, clinical psychologist of health and member of the Faculty of Medicine of Harvard University, spoke exclusively with the journal Medicine and Health Public (MSP) and explained how patients with different cardiac conditions suffer from different episodes and the importance of receiving the appropriate professional support.
From the point of view of medical care, many of the patients present with cardiac conditions and establishment, from the point of view of the psychologist the specialist indicates that he receives referrals from patients who are having problems with stress and mental health problems, in other cardiac conditions with those being treated.
There is a significant interaction between cardiac conditions and mental health problems. In this way, Dr. Ramos signals that he has four key points to keep in mind that some of them suelencadenar the problems:
- The psychological impact of having a medical condition of the heart.
- Conductive impact, condition that requires shifts in the style of life.
- Physical and social impacts, it has been established that especially the diseases of the coronation directly influence the ones over the others.
People with cigarettes like the cigarette, whether or not they have an alcoholic use, unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, have the most opportunities to develop cardiac disorders, equal shape, those who have been able to develop cardiac intercom .
Prevalence
‘In the prevalence of mental health disorders in cardiac conditions, basically we have many problems with mayoral depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder ”, explained the clinical psychologist.
In the case of depression, about 40% of patients with cardiac disease meet the clinical criteria for a severe mayoral depression, in the same way as the elderly.
‘Keep in mind that people with stress are preoccupations that do not necessarily meet a clinical criterion for onset of depression, but if they have a significant psychological impact … have a mayor risk ”
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How are health systems currently operating?
Many clinics that treat different cardiac conditions are related to psychological support and support for these patients, since it is important not to separate anything from the other, “It is not possible to separate a mental health tower from a cardiac nursing tower. Much of the work that we do the clinical psychologists of the health is in the case of cardiac conditions, we know that a person who is exposed to a chronic stress or a constant stress and that has difficulties managing the reta of life, we know that to have more difficulties recovering from a cardiac condition developing strategies to develop these types of stresses ”, dijo el Dr. Ramos.
A person who is exposed to stress presents with physical changes, and in hormones such as cortisone, adrenaline, which can present changes in the cardiac aspect, but can be managed through treatment and adequate strategies.
‘A very important area that needs to be reconsidered is the aspect of the product, where cardiac patients require significant changes in their life, and this includes diet changes, changes in physical activity, in the style of life and in those cases where a psychologist from the health clinic should contribute greatly to the treatment of these patients ”, excuses the specialist.
The clave family in the accompaniment
The family is an integral part of the patient that is also affected by a diagnosis, not only in the preoccupation with his family, but also as he makes changes by example in the diet, not only in the person with the condition of his all the nucleus.
The trust system also requires attention to be able to adapt with the mayor’s facilities to the cams where they need to reach the patient.