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Mediation effect of depressive symptoms in the relationship between perceived control and wellbeing in patients with heart failure and their partners

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, January 2018
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Title
Mediation effect of depressive symptoms in the relationship between perceived control and wellbeing in patients with heart failure and their partners
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European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, January 2018
DOI 10.1177/1474515118755721
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Maria Liljeroos, Anna Strömberg, Kristofer Årestedt, Misook L Chung

Abstract

As treatment has improved, patients with heart failure live longer, and the care mostly takes place at home with partners providing the main assistance. Perceived control over heart failure is important in managing self-care activities to maintain health in patients and their family. Depressive symptoms are associated with impaired health status in patients with heart failure and their family. However, there is limited knowledge about how depressive symptoms affect the relationship between health status and perceived control over heart failure in patients with heart failure and their cohabiting partners. The aim of this study was to examine whether the relationship between perceived control and health status (i.e. mental and physical) was mediated by depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure and their partners. In this secondary data analysis, we included 132 heart failure patients and 132 partners who completed measures of depressive symptoms (the Beck depression inventory II), perceived control (the control attitude scale), and physical and mental health status (the short form-36) instruments. The mediation effect of depression was examined using a series of multiple regression in patients and their family caregivers separately. We found a mediator effect of depressive symptoms in the relationship between perceived control and mental health status in both patients and partners. The relationship between perceived control and physical health status was mediated by depressive symptoms in the patients, not in the partners. Efforts to improve self-care management and maintenance by targeting perceived control may be more effective if depressive symptoms are also effectively managed.

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Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Lecturer 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Other 11 18%
Unknown 20 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 21 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Psychology 2 3%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 21 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 March 2018.
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#4,330,843
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
#267
of 839 outputs
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#95,548
of 443,051 outputs
Outputs of similar age from European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
#6
of 13 outputs
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