title: Functional status, anxiety, cardiac self-efficacy, and health beliefs of patients with coronary heart disease.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Beliefs and emotions could effect on functional status, quality of life, and mortality amongst patients who are suffering coronary heart disease (CHD). Current study examined the role of anxiety: trait/ state, self-efficacy, health beliefs, and functional status among patient with history of CHD.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this correlational study, 105 hospitalized and outpatients patients suffering CHD in Tehran Heart Center Hospital participated by using convenience sampling method in 2012. Cardiac self-efficacy, Seattle Angina, and research-designed health beliefs questionnaires were used to gather data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The functional status in CHD patients showed significant relationships with gender, job, and type of medical insurance of the participants (All ps<0.05). In addition , perceived vulnerability to face again cardiac attack in the future, per-ceived severity of next cardiac attack, anxiety, state anxiety and trait anxiety (All ps<0.05) had significant and negative relationships with functional status. Con-versely, the cardiac self-efficacy had a positive and significant relationship (P<0.001) with functional status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychological factors have important role in functional status and quality of life of patients who suffering CHD. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize on supportive and complementary programs to promote Cardiac Reha-bilita-tion Programs.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychiatry Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, 14711, Iran.
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Allahverdipour
authors.affiliation: Road Traffic Injury Research Centre, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, 14711, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asgharijafarabadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Psychology, Tehran University, Tehran, 84449, Iran.
authors.forename: Rasoul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Heshmati
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Education, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hashemiparast
keywords: Cardiac self-efficacy; Coronary heart disease; Functional status; State anxiety; Trait anxiety