AIBR http://www.aibr.org Registro AIBR, SSCI text/plain; charset=utf-8 TY - JOUR JO - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana TI - TYPE D PERSONALITY AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN NORTHWEST INDIA VL - IS - 2015 PB - Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red T2 - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana PY - 2015 M1 - SN - 2530-7843 UR - https://aries.aibr.org/articulo/2019/20/501/type-d-personality-and-coronary-artery-disease-in-northwest-india DO - doi:2015.AR0005670 AU - Chopra, Shruti A2 - A3 - A4 - A5 - A6 - A7 - SP - LA - Esp DA - 20/09/2019 KW - AB - Spanish: Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a multi-factorial disease and personality traits are important aetiological determinants Objectives: To unveil association between Type D personality and CAD and to test the validity of DS14 Scale for assessing Type D personality among North West Indians and to find association of various co-morbidities in incidence of Disease. Material and Methods: The study was conducted on 100 (50 females and 50 males) diagnosed coronary artery disease patients drawn from PGIMER, Chandigarh. Type D personality was determined with 14-item Type D Personality Scale (DS14) of Denollet (2005). Results: Stepwise discriminant function analysis revealed that two variables of Negative Affectivity (NA) and one variable of Social inhibition (SI) were significant out of 14 discriminating variables for Type D personality. No sex differences were found for Type D personality. Factor analysis extracted five major factors that explained 63.7% of the total variation for Type D personality. The Type D scale, i.e. DS14, used in this study was found a valid instrument, with high internal consistency as Cronbach’s alpha for NA was 0.815 and for SI 0.73. Higher incidence of certain co-morbities were observed in females than males: 54 % males and 64% females had diabetes mellitus II, 62% males and 70% females had hypertension, 36% males and 44% females had high cholestrolemia but sex differences were not statistic ally significant. Conclusions: Type D personality is a very strong determinant of coronary artery disease indicating that counselling and patient’s psychological care may help in better prognosis in CAD. English: Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a multi-factorial disease and personality traits are important aetiological determinants Objectives: To unveil association between Type D personality and CAD and to test the validity of DS14 Scale for assessing Type D personality among North West Indians and to find association of various co-morbidities in incidence of Disease. Material and Methods: The study was conducted on 100 (50 females and 50 males) diagnosed coronary artery disease patients drawn from PGIMER, Chandigarh. Type D personality was determined with 14-item Type D Personality Scale (DS14) of Denollet (2005). Results: Stepwise discriminant function analysis revealed that two variables of Negative Affectivity (NA) and one variable of Social inhibition (SI) were significant out of 14 discriminating variables for Type D personality. No sex differences were found for Type D personality. Factor analysis extracted five major factors that explained 63.7% of the total variation for Type D personality. The Type D scale, i.e. DS14, used in this study was found a valid instrument, with high internal consistency as Cronbach’s alpha for NA was 0.815 and for SI 0.73. Higher incidence of certain co-morbities were observed in females than males: 54 % males and 64% females had diabetes mellitus II, 62% males and 70% females had hypertension, 36% males and 44% females had high cholestrolemia but sex differences were not statistic ally significant. Conclusions: Type D personality is a very strong determinant of coronary artery disease indicating that counselling and patient’s psychological care may help in better prognosis in CAD. CR - Copyright; 2015 Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red ER -