ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Abstract

Depressive disorders, accompanying acute myocardial infarction, affect clinical course in post-infarction phase, patients’ functioning and quality of life. Early diagnostics of anxiety and depressive disorders, using special scales and other instruments, helps to identify the patients in need for corrective treatment and, therefore, improves the prognosis of the main disease.

Keywords

• myocardial infarction
• anxiety
• depression
• anxiety and depression diagnostics
• depressions scales