Over half of patients with chronic heart failure experience depression and anxiety symptoms, highlighting the need for routine mental health screening in this population.
Depression and anxiety symptoms were found in over half of patients attending the CHF clinic. We recommend that mental health screening should be routinely performed in patients with CHF. Prospective, adequately powered, multicentre studies from LMIC investigating the impact of depression, anxiety and stress on CHF outcomes such as health-related QoL, hospitalisation and mortality are required.
Tsabedze et al. (Wed,) studied this question.