title: Psychosocial job demands of cardiac patients in Hungary.
abstract: By means of a psychosocial questionnaire we analysed 483 patients in an ischaemic heart disease group and 101 patients in a prosthetic heart-valve group. The aim of the study was to compare the social characteristics and job demands of the two groups participating in a rehabilitation program. On the basis of our investigation, a special picture could be drawn about the coronary group. In a great number of our coronary patients significant migrational and social mobility are combined. The frequency of high-school education partly completed at evening schools was higher in this group. The number of managerial white-collar workers was five times as high as in the prosthetic-valve group. Variables reflecting job demands showed significant differences between the two groups.
authors.affiliation: Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D014937:Work; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance