Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting

Identifying patients at risk of developing depression following a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome is a new strategy that creates an important opportunity for the provision of early psychological support at a critical phase in a patient’s recovery. The aim of this research programme was to devel...

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Main Author: Crittenden, Joanna Nancy
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/841
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description Identifying patients at risk of developing depression following a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome is a new strategy that creates an important opportunity for the provision of early psychological support at a critical phase in a patient’s recovery. The aim of this research programme was to develop a brief depression risk assessment instrument for use by nurses in the clinical setting and test its psychometric properties using a mixed method approach.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-8412017-02-20T06:42:39Z Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting Crittenden, Joanna Nancy Identifying patients at risk of developing depression following a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome is a new strategy that creates an important opportunity for the provision of early psychological support at a critical phase in a patient’s recovery. The aim of this research programme was to develop a brief depression risk assessment instrument for use by nurses in the clinical setting and test its psychometric properties using a mixed method approach. 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/841 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Crittenden, Joanna Nancy
Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting
title Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting
title_full Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting
title_fullStr Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting
title_full_unstemmed Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting
title_short Identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting
title_sort identifying those at risk of depression following a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome: developing a screening intervention for use in the acute care hospital setting
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/841