Association of depression and anxiety with adherence in primary care patients with heart failure—cross-sectional results of the observational RECODE-HF cohort study

Abstract

Promising factors for increasing medication adherence (reduction of psychological distress) and lifestyle adherence (explaining the patient his/her heart failure diagnosis more than once and increase in the patients' self-efficacy), which were found in this cross-sectional study, must be further investigated in longitudinal studies.