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Low psychological resilience is associated with depression in patients with cardiovascular disease

S R Toukhsati1,2, A Jovanovic1, S Dehghani1

  • 11 Department of Cardiology, Austin Health, Australia.

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
|March 18, 2016
PubMed

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Psychological resilience is linked to lower depression in cardiac patients. Enhancing resilience may improve coping and treatment response in cardiovascular disease management.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cardiology
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Psychological resilience aids coping with chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease.
  • Understanding resilience is crucial for managing cardiac patient well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between psychological resilience and depressive symptoms.
  • Focus on a non-acute cardiac outpatient population.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional study involving 419 cardiac outpatients.
  • Assessed psychological resilience using the Sense of Coherence (SOC13) scale.
  • Measured depression symptoms with the Cardiac Depression Scale (CDS26).

Main Results:

  • Psychological resilience (SOC13 scores) was moderately within range.
  • Older patients (≥65 years) exhibited higher resilience.
  • Strong negative correlation found between resilience and depression (r=-0.79, p<0.001).
  • Resilience inversely associated with affective, cognitive, and somatic depression symptoms.
  • Meaningfulness aspect of resilience explained more variance in affective depression.

Conclusions:

  • Low psychological resilience is associated with depression, especially affective symptoms, in cardiac outpatients.
  • The SOC13 scale can monitor and predict patient coping and treatment response in cardiovascular disease.
  • Resilience interventions may benefit cardiac patient outcomes.
Abstract

Keywords:
Depressionanhedoniacardiovascular diseasehopelessnesspsychosocialresiliencescreening

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