Research Article
Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Permanent Atrial Fibrillation: Prevalence and Associated Factors
Table 3
Association between patients’ characteristics and anxiety levels.
| Characteristics | Low levels, N (%) | Moderate levels, N (%) | High levels, N (%) | value |
| Gender | | | | | Male | 47 (39.8%) | 37 (31.4%) | 34 (28.8%) | 0.022 | Female | 18 (35.3%) | 8 (15.7%) | 25 (49.0%) | Age | | | | | ≤60 | 19 (30.2%) | 24 (38.1%) | 20 (31.7%) | 0.022 | 61–70 | 21 (40.4%) | 15 (28.8%) | 16 (30.8%) | >70 | 25 (46.3%) | 6 (11.1%) | 23 (42.6%) | Status | | | | | Married | 47 (37.6%) | 33 (26.4%) | 45 (36.0%) | 0.876 | Single | 18 (40.9%) | 12 (27.3%) | 14 (31.8%) | Educational level | | | | | Primary | 36 (40.9%) | 16 (18.2%) | 36 (40.9%) | 0.025 | Secondary | 23 (41.1%) | 21 (37.5%) | 12 (21.4%) | University | 6 (24.0%) | 8 (32.0%) | 11 (44.0%) | Job | | | | | Employee | 23 (35.9%) | 26 (40.6%) | 15 (23.4%) | 0.003 | Pensioner/household | 42 (40.0%) | 19 (18.1%) | 44 (41.9%) | Place of residence | | | | | Attica | 43 (37.7%) | 33 (28.9%) | 38 (33.3%) | 0.604 | Other places | 22 (40.0%) | 12 (21.8%) | 21 (38.2%) | Number of children | | | | | None | 7 (36.8%) | 8 (42.1%) | 4 (21.1%) | 0.368 | One | 13 (37.1%) | 11 (31.4%) | 11 (31.4%) | More than one | 45 (39.1%) | 26 (22.6%) | 44 (38.3%) | Other diseases | | | | | Yes | 26 (35.6%) | 16 (21.9%) | 31 (42.5%) | 0.179 | No | 39 (40.6%) | 29 (30.2%) | 28 (29.2%) | Informed of the state of their health | | | | | Very | 39 (44.3%) | 23 (26.1%) | 26 (29.5%) | 0.391 | Enough | 18 (29.5%) | 18 (29.5%) | 25 (41.0%) | Less/not at all | 8 (40.0%) | 4 (20.0%) | 8 (40.0%) | Years having the disease | | | | | <2 | 32 (39.0%) | 25 (30.5%) | 25 (30.5%) | 0.005 | 2–5 | 18 (41.9%) | 11 (25.6%) | 14 (32.6%) | 6–10 | 15 (34.1%) | 9 (20.5%) | 20 (45.5%) | Relations with nursing staff | | | | | Very good | 56 (45.2%) | 30 (24.2%) | 38 (30.6%) | 0.040 | Good | 7 (21.2%) | 12 (36.4%) | 14 (42.4%) | Moderate/bad | 2 (16.7%) | 3 (25.0%) | 7 (58.3%) | Relations with medical staff | | | | | Very good | 53 (44.9%) | 28 (23.7%) | 37 (31.4%) | 0.128 | Good | 10 (24.4%) | 14 (34.1%) | 17 (41.5%) | Moderate/bad | 2 (20.0%) | 3 (30.0%) | 5 (50.0%) |
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Low-level score: 0–7; moderate-level score: 8–10; high-level score: 11–21.
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