Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression and Self-Care in Heart Failure Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Depression and inadequate self-care are common and interrelated problems that increase the risks of hospitalization and mortality in patients with heart failure (HF).

Objective

To determine the efficacy of an integrative cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) intervention for depression and HF self-care.

Design, setting, and participants

Randomized clinical trial with single-blind outcome assessments. Eligible patients were enrolled at Washington University Medical Center in St Louis between January 4, 2010, and June 28, 2013. The primary data analyses were conducted in February 2015. The participants were 158 outpatients in New York Heart Association Class I, II, and III heart failure with comorbid major depression.

Interventions

Cognitive behavior therap

SUBMITTER: Freedland KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4712737 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature