The level of anxiety, depression and quality of life among patients with heart failure in Greece
Autor: | Hero Brokalaki, Anastasia A Chatziefstratiou, Zoi Aggelopoulou, Konstantinos Giakoumidakis, Nikolaos V Fotos, Ioannis S. Elefsiniotis |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Disease Holistic health Anxiety 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry General Nursing Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Heart Failure Greece Depression business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Socioeconomic Factors Heart failure Quality of Life Physical therapy Female Observational study medicine.symptom business Psychosocial |
Zdroj: | Applied Nursing Research. 34:52-56 |
ISSN: | 0897-1897 |
Popis: | Purpose The assessment of the level of anxiety, depression and quality of life among patients with heart failure. Methods It was an observational study. The populations were 231 patients with heart failure who were hospitalized in cardiology departments of 2 general hospitals in Athens, from September 1, 2010 through January 31, 2012. We used the "Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire - MLHFQ" to evaluate patients' quality of life and the " State-Trait Anxiety Inventory - STAI" and the "Maastricht Questionnaire - MQ" to evaluate the level of stress and depression, respectively. Results The mean age of patients was 66.1±10.1years. The quality of life was poor, since the average score in MLHFQ was 65.4±20.6. Also, patients revealed high levels of both trait and state anxiety (mean score in STAI was 54.5±9.4 and 52.8±8.5 respectively) and depression (mean score in MQ was 34.3±8.4). Factors associated with poor quality of life and high levels of anxiety and depression were older age, low level of education, unemployment, poor economic situation, multiple hospitalizations (> 4 times) and heart failure stages III and IV in NYHA ( p Conclusion Patients with heart failure present severe symptoms of anxiety and depression and poor quality of life. Assessing those patients for these symptoms and providing holistic health care by a multidisciplinary team, will lead to the prevention and early treatment not only of physical but also of the psychosocial manifestations of the disease. |
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