PMID- 25520809
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141218
LR  - 20220331
IS  - 2050-7283 (Print)
IS  - 2050-7283 (Electronic)
IS  - 2050-7283 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 1
DP  - 2014
TI  - The contribution of illness perception to psychological distress in heart failure 
      patients.
PG  - 50
LID - 10.1186/s40359-014-0050-3 [doi]
LID - 50
AB  - BACKGROUND: The influences on the psychological well-being of heart failure (HF) 
      patients have received limited attention. Illness perceptions are a specific set 
      of cognitive representations that have been shown to predict health-related 
      outcomes in other patient groups. This study sought to explore the role of 
      illness perceptions in the psychological well-being of HF patients by creating a 
      profile of illness perceptions in HF and examining their relations with anxiety 
      and depression. METHODS: Participants were 95 consecutive outpatients. Indices of 
      psychological well-being were depression and anxiety, measured using the Hospital 
      Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Illness perceptions were measured using the 
      Illness Perception Questionnaire - Revised (IPQ-R). Functional status was also 
      determined using the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification. RESULTS: 
      Illness perceptions were associated with indices of psychological well-being. 
      Regression analyses showed that illness perceptions accounted for a significant 
      proportion of the variance in both depression and anxiety. The contribution of 
      illness perceptions was greater than that made by traditional covariates 
      (socio-demographic variables and functional status). CONCLUSIONS: Results 
      highlight dynamic interrelations between perceptions of illness and mental health 
      indices. They also suggest that in considering the role of illness perceptions in 
      psychological well-being, the primary focus should be on the overall dynamic of 
      an individual's illness experience rather than on specific illness dimensions. 
      Findings highlight the potential role of illness perceptions in depression and 
      anxiety in HF. This has implications for interventions to maximise psychological 
      well-being in this patient group.
FAU - Morgan, Karen
AU  - Morgan K
AD  - Department of Psychology, Division of Population Health Science, Royal College of 
      Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland ; Perdana University, PU-RCSI School of 
      Medicine, Block B & D Aras 1, MAEPS Building, MARDI Complex, Jalan MAEPS Perdana, 
      43400 Serdang Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
FAU - Villiers-Tuthill, Amanda
AU  - Villiers-Tuthill A
AD  - Department of Psychology, Division of Population Health Science, Royal College of 
      Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland ; Perdana University, PU-RCSI School of 
      Medicine, Block B & D Aras 1, MAEPS Building, MARDI Complex, Jalan MAEPS Perdana, 
      43400 Serdang Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
FAU - Barker, Maja
AU  - Barker M
AD  - Department of Psychology, Division of Population Health Science, Royal College of 
      Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland.
FAU - McGee, Hannah
AU  - McGee H
AD  - Department of Psychology, Division of Population Health Science, Royal College of 
      Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20141128
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Psychol
JT  - BMC psychology
JID - 101627676
PMC - PMC4266484
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Anxiety
OT  - Depression
OT  - Heart failure
OT  - Illness perceptions
OT  - Psychological distress
EDAT- 2014/12/19 06:00
MHDA- 2014/12/19 06:01
PMCR- 2014/11/28
CRDT- 2014/12/19 06:00
PHST- 2014/06/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/09/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/12/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/12/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/12/19 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2014/11/28 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 50 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s40359-014-0050-3 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Psychol. 2014 Nov 28;2(1):50. doi: 10.1186/s40359-014-0050-3. eCollection 
      2014.