LONELINESS FOLLOWING CORONARY HEART DISEASES AMONG ADOLESCENCES

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Loneliness adolescences Risk factors cardiograph problems Purposive sampling

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NIGHAT GUL, SHAGHUFTA PARVEEN, SAJID MEHMOOD ALVI, ASAF NIWAZ, IFFAT GULAB, ASMA BATOOL

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Objective: To measure the effect of loneliness on coronary artery heart disease among adolescences with regions and gender differences in cross sectional survey study.


Methodology: A cross sectional comparative study was conducted in district Haripur Pakistan and 200 participants’ were selected purposefully.  In door patients accessed to public and private hospitals of Haripur. The study was conducted from March 2014 to February 2015. University of California loss angles loneliness Urdu version 3 UCLA scale was used in present study.1


Results: Mean age of target population was 15.66 ± 2.873, CAD patient’s loneliness score was 21.06 ± 6.834 higher than counterpart’s patients. Mean scores of loneliness for male & female CAD adolescences were 27.89 ± 11.12 & 35.00 ± 14.0 respectively. Urban area residing adolescences CAD patients and non CAD patients’ scores were 44.39 ± 8.892 & 34.25 ± 14.19 correspondingly at (p<.001). Rural area residing adolescences CAD patients and non CAD patients’ scores were 30.25 ± 14.19 & 30.94 ± 7.759 respectively at (p<.001).


Conclusion: CAD adolescences level of loneliness was higher and non CAD adolescences loneliness was lower.  While CAD and non CAD patient’s in difference in loneliness among adolescences in terms of gender and region.

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NIGHAT GUL, SHAGHUFTA PARVEEN, SAJID MEHMOOD ALVI, ASAF NIWAZ, IFFAT GULAB, ASMA BATOOL

1NIGHAT GUL, 2DR SHAGHUFTA PARVEEN, 3DR SAJID MEHMOOD ALVI, 4DR ASAF NIWAZ, 5IFFAT GULAB, DR ASMA BATOOL

1lecturer Department of Psychology, The University of Haripur, Khaber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

2Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The Hazara university Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

3Asistant Professor Department of Psychology, The University of Haripur, khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

4Associate Professor, Department of Education, The University of Haripur Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Postgraduate College for Women Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

MBBS Doctor, Fatima Jinnah University Lahore, Pakistan

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