TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and hostility in elderly patients with heart failure, myocardial infarction, and a coronary artery bypass graft
AU - Moser, Debra K.
AU - Dracup, Kathleen
AU - Evangelista, Lorraine S.
AU - Zambroski, Cheryl Hoyt
AU - Lennie, Terry A.
AU - Chung, Misook L.
AU - Doering, Lynn V.
AU - Westlake, Cheryl
AU - Heo, Seongkum
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported in part by Center Grant 1P20NR010679 from the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health . The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Nursing Research or the National Institutes of Health. Funding was also provided by a National American Heart Association Established Investigator Award and by Western Division American Heart Association grant NCR 133-09 .
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Objective: This study sought to compare the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and hostility among 3 clinically diverse elderly cardiac patient cohorts and a reference group of healthy elders. Methods: This was a multicenter, comparative study. A total of 1167 individuals participated: 260 healthy elders, and 907 elderly cardiac patients who were at least 3 months past a hospitalization (478 heart-failure patients, 298 postmyocardial infarction patients, and 131 postcoronary artery bypass graft patients). Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and hostility were measured using the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist. Results: The prevalence of anxiety, depression, and hostility was higher in patients in each of the cardiac patient groups than in the group of healthy elders. Almost three quarters of patients with heart failure reported experiencing symptoms of depression, and the heart-failure group manifested the greatest percentage of patients with depressive symptoms. Conclusions: The high levels of emotional distress common in cardiac patients are not a function of aging, because healthy elders exhibit low levels of anxiety, depression, and hostility.
AB - Objective: This study sought to compare the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and hostility among 3 clinically diverse elderly cardiac patient cohorts and a reference group of healthy elders. Methods: This was a multicenter, comparative study. A total of 1167 individuals participated: 260 healthy elders, and 907 elderly cardiac patients who were at least 3 months past a hospitalization (478 heart-failure patients, 298 postmyocardial infarction patients, and 131 postcoronary artery bypass graft patients). Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and hostility were measured using the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist. Results: The prevalence of anxiety, depression, and hostility was higher in patients in each of the cardiac patient groups than in the group of healthy elders. Almost three quarters of patients with heart failure reported experiencing symptoms of depression, and the heart-failure group manifested the greatest percentage of patients with depressive symptoms. Conclusions: The high levels of emotional distress common in cardiac patients are not a function of aging, because healthy elders exhibit low levels of anxiety, depression, and hostility.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.10.017
DO - 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.10.017
M3 - Article
C2 - 20561849
AN - SCOPUS:77956425871
SN - 0147-9563
VL - 39
SP - 378
EP - 385
JO - Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care
JF - Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care
IS - 5
ER -