The relationship between quality of marital relationship and marital stress in patients with ischemic heart disease Download PDF

Introduction: Marital relationship is a multi-dimensional relationship, which affected by many factors such as psychological , individual and social, Satisfaction of Sexual relationship can cause strength of the family and both physical and mental health. Therefore, this study was performed to investigate the relationship between marital quality and marital stress in patients with ischemic heart disease. Methods: This cross sectional study was performed on 300 patients with acute coronary syndrome, 2 months after hospitalized in the coronary angiography ward in shahid beheshti hospital in Qom, Iran in 2016. Patients were selected by convenience sampling. Data collection was done through using the “demographic and clinical data questionnaire”, Marital quality” and “Stockholm marital stress questionnaire”. Data were analyzed using SPSS 13 and central indexes, Pearson correlation test and multiple linear regression. Results: The means of age in patients was 65.95±5.06. The means of Marital Quality54.36±9.4 and Marital stress was 3.56±0.05 and 101.6±15.1, respectively. The Pearson correlation coefficient showed that Marital Quality score was significantly negatively correlated with Marital stress scores (r= -0.718). The results of linear regression analysis revealed that there was significant relationship between quality of marital relationship and marital stress after removing the effects of intervening variables (p=0.001, R2=59%) Conclusion The results show that patients with acute coronary syndrome have favorable marital quality and marital stress. Relieve marital stress, improve the quality of the marital relationship. Therefore; It is recommended that nurses must pay attention to education concerning the Marital Stress Management in patients with Ischemic heart disease.