APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Sitting in Fear: The Association of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Sedentary Time in Cardiac Arrest Recovery

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Jeffrey Birk
    Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Chang Xu
    Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Keith Diaz
    Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Jacqueline Nacipucha
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Danielle Rojas
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Camila Isabel Domínguez-Imbert Nieto
    Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Guixiao Ding
    Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Maia ten Brink
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Gaspar Cruz
    Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Sachin Agarwal
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Abstract

Elevated psychological distress is common in the initial weeks after cardiac arrest. We found that patients with more severe posttraumatic stress symptoms at hospital discharge spent more time being sedentary in the first week post-discharge, which has implications for psychological interventions that may improve physical recovery post-arrest.

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