I= MENTAL HEALTH OF THE SPOUSES OF CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENTS
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Title of Thesis
MENTAL HEALTH OF THE SPOUSES OF CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENTS
Author(s)
MUAZZAMA ABIDI
Institute/University/Department Details
Bahria University Islamabad
Session
2005
Subject
Clinical Psychology
Number of Pages
147
Keywords (Extracted from title, table of contents and abstract of thesis)
mental health, cardiovascular patients, ipat anxiety, ipat depression

Abstract
The present research is conducted in order to investigate the mental health of the spouses of cardiovascular patients andspouses of normal individuals. IPAT ANXIETY and IPAT DEPRESSION scales were administered to 200 spouses and they were asked to mention their demographic data.

200 participants were divided in to two groups out of which 100 spouses were of the patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases and 100 spouses were of the normal individuals. These groups were further divided according to the gender differences. There were 50 wives of cardiovascular patients, 50 wives of normal individuals, 50 husbands of cardiovascular patients and 50 husbands of normal wives.

Chi - square test was applied for the statistical analysis of the data.

The results of the present study show that the spouses of cardiovascular patients are more depressed and anxious than the spouses of normal individuals.
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1 0 Contents
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2 2 Method 61
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3 3 Results 69
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4 4 Discussion 91
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5 5 Conclusion 117
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6 6 References 122
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  6.1 Appendix A 137
  6.2 Appendix B 143