PMID- 20631861
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110714
LR  - 20240318
IS  - 1918-1515 (Electronic)
IS  - 1205-6626 (Print)
IS  - 1205-6626 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 2
DP  - 2010 Summer
TI  - Sociodemographic factors and depressive symptoms in hospitalized patients with 
      heart failure.
PG  - e29-32
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To determine the differences in depressive symptoms (DS) among a 
      sample of patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF). DESIGN: A descriptive, 
      cross-sectional design was used. METHODS: The Beck Depression Inventory was used 
      to measure DS, and HF severity was assessed using the New York Heart Association 
      (NYHA) classification system. The sociodemographic and clinical variables 
      examined include age, sex, education, marital status, fixed monthly income, 
      habitation, living arrangement and HF severity. The differences between the 
      presence and absence of the variables were evaluated using the Student's t test. 
      RESULTS: The sample included 103 patients with a mean age of 65.4 years: 38 
      (36.9%) were men and 65 (63.1%) were women. Forty-three patients (41.7%) were in 
      NYHA class III, and approximately one-half of the patient sample (49.5%) were 
      married. Patients with NYHA class IV HF had significantly more DS than patients 
      with NYHA class II or III. Age was correlated with scores of DS (P=0.002). There 
      were significant differences in DS among the variables of marital status, 
      habitation and living arrangement. CONCLUSIONS: Depression is a common and 
      treatable clinical finding in hospitalized patients, requiring an early diagnosis 
      and appropriate treatment for effective management. The implementation and 
      monitoring of treatment are necessary to reduce the costs of treatment of HF.
FAU - Pena, Felipe Montes
AU  - Pena FM
AD  - Department of Clinical Cardiology;
FAU - da Silva Soares, Jamil
AU  - da Silva Soares J
FAU - Paiva, Beatriz Tose Costa
AU  - Paiva BT
FAU - Piraciaba, Maria Clara Teixeira
AU  - Piraciaba MC
FAU - Marins, Renata Magliano
AU  - Marins RM
FAU - Barcellos, Amanda Ferreira
AU  - Barcellos AF
FAU - de Souza, Lara Barros Muniz
AU  - de Souza LB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Canada
TA  - Exp Clin Cardiol
JT  - Experimental and clinical cardiology
JID - 9715903
PMC - PMC2898532
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Depression
OT  - Heart failure
OT  - Sociodemographic factors
EDAT- 2010/07/16 06:00
MHDA- 2010/07/16 06:01
PMCR- 2010/06/01
CRDT- 2010/07/16 06:00
PHST- 2010/02/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/03/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/07/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/07/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2010/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ecc15e029 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Exp Clin Cardiol. 2010 Summer;15(2):e29-32.