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Psychological features such as 'Type D' personality, anxiety, and coping strategies significantly impact the well-being and clinical outcomes of patients with heart failure.
This review highlights the importance of assessing psychological features beyond depression and anxiety in heart failure patients to potentially improve treatment effectiveness.
Psychological assessment beyond depression may aid heart failure care; leaves open optimal interventions pending prospective trials.
The progression of heart failure (HF), similarly to other chronic and/or terminal diseases, affects the psychological status of the patients, with consequences for general well-being. The changes in psychological features can be measured and quantified using numerous psychological questionnaires, which do not establish any diagnosis of pathology, although they may be important for the effectiveness of applied treatment of patients with HF. In this paper, we summarize and discuss available evidence on psychological phenomena occurring in the course of HF, such as: ‘Type D’ personality, anxiety, psychological distress, coping strategies, sense of coherence, affectivity, sense of self-efficacy, sense of control and health perception, along with the presentation of available and validated measures of psychological features.
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Siennicka et al. (2015) conducted a review in Heart failure. Psychological features (e.g., Type D personality, anxiety, coping strategies) was evaluated. Psychological features such as 'Type D' personality, anxiety, and coping strategies significantly impact the well-being and clinical outcomes of patients with heart failure.
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