Population
63 patients with heart failure and their 63 family caregivers
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
8 months
Authors
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May warrant assessing caregiver health and depressive symptoms in HF; leaves open whether interventions improve outcomes.
Caregiver medical health and baseline depressive symptoms are strong predictors of physical and emotional quality of life in family caregivers of heart failure patients.
Pressler et al. (2009) studied this question.
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