Key result
Attitudes about impairment strongly correlated with depression in heart failure patients and predicted the chronicity of depressive symptoms over 24 weeks, mediating the effect of physical impairment.
Observational (n=83)
In patients with heart failure, the relationship between physical impairment and depression is strongly mediated by patients' attitudes and coping mechanisms regarding their impairment.
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May warrant assessing attitudes in HF depression care; hypothesis-generating for interventions, needs prospective trials.
Turvey et al. (2006) conducted an observational in Chronic Heart Failure (n=83). Attitudes about impairment was evaluated on Depression and chronicity of depressive symptoms. Attitudes about impairment strongly correlated with depression in heart failure patients and predicted the chronicity of depressive symptoms over 24 weeks, mediating the effect of physical impairment.
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