CLINICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEART FAILURE IN ELDERLY AGE

Efremova Elena Vladimirovna, Postgraduate student, Ulyanovsk State University, lena_1953@mail.ru
Sabitov Ildar Anberovich, Candidate of medical sciences, associate professor, sub-department of medical psychology, psychoneurology and psychiatry, Institute of medicine, ecology and physical culture, Ulyanovsk State University, kmp@ulsu.ru
Shutov Alexander Mikhaylovich, Doctor of medical sciences, professor, head of sub-department of therapy and occupational diseases, Institute of medicine, ecology and physical culture, Ulyanovsk State University, amshu@mail.ru
Suvorova Svetlana Alexandrovna, Deputy head doctor for medical affairs, Ulyanovsk Municipal Clinical Hospital, suvorova1975@rambler.ru

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The efficiency of treatment and diagnostics in many ways depends on adherence of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). However, factors of psychological characteristics that determine adherence of older patients with CHF with comorbidity have not been studied yet. 75 patients with CHF (42 females and 33 males, age average 61,8 ± 9,6 years) were studied. The comorbidity, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction in history, anemia increase adherence of patients with CHF. Nonadherence is conditioned by the psychological status features of older patients with CHF with comorbidity.

chronic heart failure, adherence, comorbidity.