Development of psychopathology in adults with congenital heart disease: A 40-53 years follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nowadays, more than 90% of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) reach adulthood. Their long-term psychopathological development is not well known.

Material and methods

Our unique, single center, longitudinal cohort-study evaluates a series of consecutive patients who underwent cardiac surgery in their childhood between 1968 and 1980 every ten years. Standardized questionnaires were used to measure psychopathology at 4 follow-up time points (1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021) and outcomes were compared with normative data. Results in the current evaluation were corrected for the Covid-19 stringency index.

Results

At the current (4th) evaluation in 2021 (n = 204, 46.1% female, age: 49.9 ± 5.2), female patients with CHD reported more internalizing problems tha

SUBMITTER: Pelosi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11658223 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature