Factors Associated with Depression among Heart Failure Patients at Cardiac Follow-Up Clinics in Northwest Ethiopia, 2017: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Birhaneselassie Gebeyehu YazewDebrework Tesgera BeshahMohammed Hassen SalihTadele Amare ZelekePublished in: Psychiatry journal (2019)
Around half of the patients were depressive. The patients who had poor self-care behavior, were females, had poor social support, had a current history of smoking, and had duration of chronic heart failure >1 year need special attention. Therefore, all referral hospitals need efforts to focus on those problems and target improvements of depressive symptoms.