Pet ownership, social support, and one-year survival after acute XXXX in the @entity943 Suppression Trial (CAST).

@entity1 @entity308 @entity583 @entity235 @entity148 @entity453 @entity943
Social support and pet ownership, a nonhuman form of social support, have both been associated with @entity453 survival. The independent effects of pet ownership, social support, disease severity, and other psychosocial factors on 1-year survival after acute @entity583 are examined prospectively. The @entity943 Suppression Trial provided physiologic data on a group of post- @entity583 @entity1 with asymptomatic @entity943 . An ancillary study provided psychosocial data, including pet ownership, social support, recent life events, future life events, @entity148 , @entity308 , coronary prone behavior, and expression of anger. Subjects (n = 424) were randomly selected from @entity1 attending participating @entity943 Suppression Trial sites and completed baseline psychosocial questionnaires. One year survival data were obtained from 369 @entity1 (87%), of whom 112 (30.4%) owned pets and 20 (5.4%) died. Logistic regression indicates that high social support (p < 0.068) and owning a pet (p = 0.085) tend to predict survival independent of physiologic severity and demographic and other psychosocial factors. @entity235 owners (n = 87, 1 died) are significantly less likely to die within 1 year than those who did not own @entity235 (n = 282, 19 died; p < 0.05); amount of social support is also an independent predictor of survival (p = 0.065). Both pet ownership and social support are significant predictors of survival, independent of the effects of the other psychosocial factors and physiologic status. These data confirm and extend previous findings relating pet ownership and social support to survival among @entity1 with @entity453 .
