Suicide risk in chronic heart failure patients and its association with depression, hopelessness and self esteem

• Published in: Journal of clinical neuroscience 2019-10, Vol.68, p.51-54
• Main Authors: Korkmaz, Hasan, Korkmaz, Sevda, Çakar, Mustafa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Heart failure; Hopelessness; Self-esteem; Suicide risk
• ISSN: 0967-5868; 1532-2653
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2019.07.062

•It was determined that hopelessness and depression scores were higher in the patients when compared to the control group.•It was also established that the self-esteem of subjects in the patient group was lower when compared to the control.•Suicide risk was higher in patients with heart failure in comparison to the control group.•Such increase in suicide risk correlated with high levels of hopelessness, depression, low self-esteem in the patient group. Heart failure is a chronic disease that impairs the quality of life and leads to several psychiatric disorders, especially depression and anxiety. The present study intended to investigate suicide risk and its association with depression, hopelessness and self-esteem in patients with chronic heart failure. 32 patients with chronic heart failure and 32 healthy control subjects with similar sociodemographic attributes were included in the present case control study. Sociodemographic data form, Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) and Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) were applied to all subjects. It was determined that the BHS (11.4 ± 3.74 vs. 4.8 ± 4.02, p