Coping, symptoms, and insomnia among people with heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Increases in stress, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and sleep problems have been reported during the Covid-19 pandemic, and people with chronic medical conditions such as heart failure (HF) are especially vulnerable. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which sleep characteristics, sleep-related cognitions, anxiety, depression, perceived stress, and changes in these phenomena over time predict ways of coping with pandemic-related stress among participants in the HeartSleep study, a randomized controlled trial of the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in people with HF.

Methods and results

Participants completed questionnaires to elicit sleep characteristics, daytime symptoms, mood and stress at baseline, 6 months after t

SUBMITTER: O'Connell M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9384676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature