CLINICAL FEATURE OF DEPRESSION IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS

Nguyễn Văn Hải1,, Trần Nguyễn Ngọc1,2
1 Hanoi Medical University
2 National Mental Health Institute, Bach Mai Hospital

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Research objectives To describe the clinical characteristics clinical feature of depression in heart failure patients”. Subjects and research methods: Using a cross – sectional descriptive method, analyzing clinical characteristics of depression by direct interviews with heart failure inpatients at the Viet|Nam Nationnal Heart Institute Bach Mai Hospital from August 2020 to July 2021. Results: There were 60 patients with depression out of 128 heart failure patients, accounted 46,87%. Analyzing 60 patients with depression, we found that: Most characteristic of depressive symptoms is reduced energy leading to increased fatiguability (90%). Among depressive common symptoms, disturbed sleep is the highest proportion (96,7%), especially suicidal thought or behavior appears in 3,3% of patients.

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