1School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Brawijaya University
2School of Nursing, Kendedes Institute of Health Sciences
*Corresponding Author: Kumboyono Kumboyono, School of Nursing, Medical Faculty, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia, Phone: +6281805004106, Email: abu_hilmi.fk@ub.ac.id, publikasikoe@gmail.com
Online published on 19 August, 2019.
Anxiety is one of the psychological factors as an independent factor of predictors coronary heart disease (CHD) and proven to play a strong role in increasing the risk of CHD doubling.
Objective of the study is to identify the relationship of socioeconomic status, type of personality and coping mechanism with anxiety occurrence in population with the risk of CHD.
The study used analytical observation with cross sectional approach. The respondents were 111 individuals with the risk of coronary heart disease. The sampling method was purposive sampling. The study was conducted in Malang, Indonesia on April 2018.
Spearman rank correlation test showed a significant relationship between socioeconomic status (p=0.009), type of personality (p=0.038) and coping mechanism (p=0.000) with anxiety occurrence in population with the risk of CHD. Logistic regression test showed that coping mechanism is the most correlation factor with anxiety occurrence in population with CHD risk (OR=5.343) compared with other factor. It is important to provide skills of coping mechanism for population with the risk of coronary heart disease.
Socioeconomic status, personality, coping mechanism, anxiety, coronary heart disease, risk
