An International Perspective on Gender Differences in Anxiety Early After Acute Myocardial Infarction
Debra K. Moser, RN, DNSc,
Kathleen Dracup, RN, DNSc,
Sharon McKinley, RN, PhD,
Keiko Yamasaki, RN, MSN,
Cho-Ja Kim, RN, PhD,
Barbara Riegel, RN, DNSc,
Carol Ball, RN, PhD,
Lynn V. Doering, RN, DNSc,
Kyungeh An, RN, PhD and
Maree Barnett, RN, MSc
From the College of Nursing (D.K.M.), University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; the School of Nursing (K.D.), University of California, San Francisco, California; the School of Nursing (L.V.D.), University of California, Los Angeles, California; the School of Nursing (B.R.), San Diego State University, San Diego, California; the University of Technology (S.M.), Sydney, Australia; Tokyo Women’s Medical College Hospital (K.Y.), Tokyo, Japan; the College of Nursing (C-J.K.), Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; Ewha Womens University (K.A.), Seoul, South Korea; the Royal Free Hospital (C.B.) and City University (C.B.), London, United Kingdom; and the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Team (M.B.), Department of Health, London, United Kingdom.
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Fig. 1. Gender differences in anxiety overall and in each country.
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Fig. 2. Gender differences in anxiety based on age  60 and <60 years of age (p = .51 for interaction of age and gender, p = .02 for main effect of age, and p = .001 for main effect of gender).
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Copyright © 2003 by the American Psychosomatic Society
