Development and Validation of a Measure to Assess Patients' Threat Perceptions in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Threat perceptions in the emergency department (ED; e.g., patients' subjective feelings of helplessness or lack of control) during evaluation for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are associated with the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and PTSD has been associated with medication nonadherence, cardiac event recurrence, and mortality. This study reports the development and validation of a seven-item measure of ED threat perceptions in English- and Spanish-speaking patients evaluated for ACS.

Methods

Participants were drawn from an observational cohort study of 1,000 patients evaluated for ACS between 2013 and 2016 in a large New York City hospital. Participants reported on threat perceptions in the ED and during inpatient stay (using 12 items pre

SUBMITTER: Cornelius T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6185758 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature