Association Between Symptom Characteristics, Knowledge Sources, and Patient Interpretation of Acute Coronary
Masato Uchida1,2,3, Satoshi Yoshimura4,5, Kanna Arimoto5
1Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University Kyoto Japan.
Background:
The associations between symptom characteristics and patients' interpretations and sources of knowledge about acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains unclear.
Methods And Results:
We enrolled 81 patients with ACS. Patients who misinterpreted their symptoms more frequently reported atypical features such as tenderness (13.3% vs 0%; P=0.028) and syncope (11.8% vs 0%; P=0.011). Common knowledge sources among patients who correctly interpreted their symptoms included television, healthcare professionals, and the internet without social media.
Conclusions:
Patients experiencing atypical symptoms often misinterpret them. Most knowledge sources for those who interpreted correctly were traditional.
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