Cognitive therapy improves three-month outcomes in hospitalized patients with heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with heart failure (HF) experience depressive symptoms that contribute to poorer outcomes. We tested the effects of a brief cognitive therapy intervention on depressive symptoms, negative thinking, health-related quality of life, and cardiac event-free survival.

Methods and results

Hospitalized patients with depressive symptoms (n = 41, 66 ± 11 years, 45% female, 81% New York Heart Association Class III/IV) were randomly assigned to control group or a brief, nurse-delivered cognitive therapy intervention, delivered during hospitalization and followed by a 1-week booster phone call. Depressive symptoms, negative thinking, and health-related quality of life were measured at 1 week and 3 months. Cardiac event-free survival was assessed at 3 months. Mixed mod

SUBMITTER: Dekker RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3246192 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature