ArticlePrimary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry2009
Recognition and treatment of depression and anxiety symptoms in heart failure.
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- Depression, Anxiety, and Cognitive Impairment : Comorbid Mental Health Disorders in Heart Failure.Current heart failure reports · 2018Review
- Development and Validation of a Cross-Cultural Heart Failure-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this prospective study was to examine the prevalence, recognition, and treatment of depression and anxiety in ambulatory patients with heart failure.
methodA total of 158 heart failure participants were enrolled between November 2006 and April 2007. Each patient completed a telephone screening interview that included an assessment of heart-failure severity (New York Heart Assciation criteria) as well as measures for depression (Geriatric Depression Scale [GDS]) and anxiety (Geriatric Anxiety Inventory [GAI]). Following study recruitment, each patient's electronic medical record was comprehensively reviewed for the 12 months prestudy and 6 months poststudy assessments to determine whether patients had been recognized as having and/or treated for depression or anxiety.
resultsPrevalence of depression (GDS score ≥ 6) was 41.8%, and prevalence of anxiety (GAI score ≥ 9) was 25.3%. Of patients with a positive GDS or GAI result, 57.5% had a diagnosis or medical-record notation for depression and/or anxiety, and 60.3% received mental health treatment during the 18-month period of the EMR review. Of patients with a documented diagnosis of depression or anxiety, 92.3% received mental health treatment. Results showed that higher GDS scores were associated with recognition of depression/anxiety in the medical record, and a positive primary care depression screening predicted documented mental health treatment.
conclusionThese data suggest that symptomatic depression and anxiety are underrecognized in heart failure patients and that mental health screening may be important for receipt of care. Notably, once depression and/or anxiety was documented in the medical record, patients were highly likely to receive mental health treatment.
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