Current Status of Research on the Association between Perceived Control and Heart disease: A Scoping Review

Sudden cardiovascular disease is extremely harmful to a person's social and psychological health. Even after surgical treatment, patients still experience varying degrees of chest pain and discomfort, shortness of breath, and other symptoms, which affect their health-related work efficiency and hamper the recovery of their family and social functions. In addition, there is a significant association between cardiovascular system diseases and depression, an adverse emotion . Perceived control (PC) is considered to be the belief that individuals constrain their health-related behaviors by controlling their perceptions and emotions and further influencing the external environment. It is important for restoring psychosocial well-being after experiencing a cardiac event. In addition to this, the importance of changes in perceived control, both in adulthood and old age, has been recognized as a predictor of CVD incidence .