Why the study?
Do somatic symptoms explain differences in psychological distress between stable systolic heart failure outpatients and a non-heart failure comparison group?
Population
118 participants, comprising 61 stable systolic heart failure outpatients and a comparison group of 57…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Clinicians should consider somatic symptoms in HF depression assessment; supports symptom-overlap hypothesis but leaves causal effects open for longitudinal study.
Do somatic symptoms explain differences in psychological distress between stable systolic heart failure outpatients and a non-heart failure comparison group?
Higher depression scores in heart failure patients compared to community controls are largely explained by somatic symptoms such as sleep disturbance and fatigue, highlighting the need to address these symptoms in clinical assessment.
Nancy S. Redeker (2006) studied this question.
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