التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Anxiety and medical diagnostic procedures: Results with patients “at risk” for huntington's disease undergoing pet scan. |
| المؤلفون: |
Boivin, Michael, Giordani, Bruno, Betley, Annette, Berent, Stanley, Rothley, Jill, Markeli, Doreen, Koeppe, Bob, Young, Anne |
| المصدر: |
Psychology & Health; Apr1991, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p121-128, 8p |
| مستخلص: |
Twenty-nine patients genetically at risk for Huntington's Disease and 64 volunteer controls underwent positron emission tomography (PET) scanning of ″FDG metabolism. These persons were also evaluated for anxiety immediately before and after the PET-Scan procedure with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The State anxiety measures for the at-risk patients were significantly higher than were those for the volunteers both before and after the scan, although the effect was no longer significant when age was included as a covariate. For both groups, subjects having higher Trait anxiety scores also had significantly higher State anxiety measures. Females were significantly higher than males on State anxiety, although this effect may be derived from less of a willingness on the part of males to report emotional apprehension or fear. Furthermore, subjects' State anxiety decreased significantly once the PET procedure was finished. Individual differences on factors such as those noted above should be considered in attempts to inform and prepare patients for medical diagnostic procedures, such as PET. This can lead to a more positive experience for the patient in the medical diagnostic setting, and physiologically-based measures from such tests that are less confounded by the concomitants of heightened emotional arousal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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