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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are part of a group of chronic diseases and have a high mortality rate. Thus, they represent a great demand for hospital services, representing a high number of hospitalizations. Despite the great technological advances and clinical knowledge, the psychological aspects are still little known. This research aims to verify the prevalence of psychological changes among patients with CVD undergoing outpatient treatment. This is a descriptive-quantitative cross-sectional study. A sociodemographic questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and the Brief Cope Scale were applied. Data collection took place between March and April 2022, exclusively at the outpatient clinic of the Hospital Estadual de Urgências de Goiás Dr. Valdomiro Cruz. Sociodemographic and clinical variables were accompanied by descriptive statistics – absolute and relative frequency, mean, median and standard deviation (SD). The study revealed a prevalence of psychological alterations among patients with cardiovascular diseases in outpatient treatment. The main psychological symptoms evidenced were psychoticism, anxiety and depression and the main coping strategies were instrumental support, emotional support and religiosity.