- Title
- The course of depression 10-weeks post-acute coronary syndrome : Assessment using the cardiac depression visual analogue scale
- Creator
- Di Benedetto, Mirella; Kent, Stephen; Lindner, Helen
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/45469
- Identifier
- vital:2962
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13548500701660459
- Identifier
- ISSN:1354-8506
- Abstract
- This study investigated depressed mood post-acute coronary syndrome in an Australian sample using the Cardiac Depression Visual Analogue Scale (CD-VAS), which was developed to assess the depression-related symptoms of reduced pleasure, memory, activity, future pessimism, increased irritation and sleep problems. The Beck Depression Inventory-II, the Cardiac Depression Scale (CDS) and a demographic medical questionnaire were administered at 2 weeks post-ACS to an initial sample of 13 female and 45 male participants whose mean age was 59.16 (SD=11.13) years (range 38-79). Depressed and non-depressed participants, determined by the CDS, then kept a CD-VAS diary between 2 and 12 weeks. 32 participants kept the diary for the entire 10 weeks. Total CD-VAS scores remained elevated in the depressed group for the entire period. The groups differed on the Pleasure, Memory and Future items for a total of 6, 6 and 5 weeks, respectively, and differed on the Activity item only at 1, 3 and 5 weeks. No group differences were seen in the Irritation or Sleep items. Within the depressed group, the only CD-VAS items that differed from each other across time were Irritation and Activity. Further, the Sleep, Irritation and Activity items had a significant time effect. These results indicate that although overall depression, as measured by the CD-VAS, remained elevated in the depressed group, there were key differences in recovery rates of specific depression-related symptoms. These differences could be useful indicators in the treatment of depression post-ACS.; C1
- Publisher
- UK Routledge
- Relation
- Psychology, Health and Medicine Vol. 13, no. 4 (2008), p. 483-493
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1701 Psychology; Depression; Acute coronary syndromes; Short scale
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