an investigation of the relationship between marital stress and depressive symptoms among women with coronary heart disease

the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between marital stress and depressive symptoms among women with coronary heart disease (chd) and healthytial statistics including means, standard deviations, analysis of variance, pearson' s correlation coefficient, and regression analyses. the results revealed that marital stress was significantly associated with depressive symptoms in both groups. depressive symptoms were significantly more common in women with chd than between levels of marital stress of subjects did not healthy women. the difference reach statistical significance. marital stress, hyperlipidemia and use of beta-blockers were predicted by depressive symptoms, respectively