[An analysis of psychological problems of patients in cardiology clinic].
OBJECTIVE
To explore the current condition of psychological problems of patients in cardiology clinic.


METHODS
A total of 347 patients in the cardiology clinic of Prof. HU Da-yi were screened by self-rating depression scale (SDS), Self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), Hamilton rating scale for depression (HRSD) and Hamilton anxiety scale (HAMA).


RESULTS
The rates of patients with somatic disease only or with psychological disorder only were 52.4% and 12.7%, the rate of somatic disease accompanied with psychological disorder was 27.7%. For the patients with psychological problems, there were 31 cases with depression (8.9%), 62 cases with anxiety (17.9%), and 28 cases (8.1%) suffering from mixed depression and anxiety the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, functional disease or digestive disease was always used by doctors for the patients with psychological problems only, as they always did not accept the diagnosis of psychological disorder.


CONCLUSIONS
It is very common that patients in cardiology clinic department suffered from psychological problems. The patients with psychological disorder only were easily misdiagnosed as somatic disease especially cardiovascular disease.
Heart Center People's Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100044, China.
Mei-Yan
MY
Liu
Da-Yi
DY
Hu
Rong-Huan
RH
Jiang
Jun-Guo
JG
Deng
Xiu-Ling
XL
Yang
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales