General practitioners’ awareness of depressive symptomatology is not associated with quality of life in heart failure patients – cross-sectional results of the observational RECODE-HF Study

Table 3 Patients' indications regarding utilisation of prescription antidepressants and psychotherapy

	P (+/+)	P (+/−)	Total P (+)	Test of significant differences
	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)	Test of significant differences
Psychotherapy	19 (9.5%)	18 (4.8%)	37 (6.4%)	p = 0.021
Taking any prescription antidepressant	61 (30.3%)	46 (12.3%)	107 (18.6%)	p < 0.001
Antidepressants and/or psychotherapy	71 (35.3%)	57 (15.3%)	128 (22.3%)	p < 0.001
N	201 (100%)	373 (100%)	574 (100%)

Comparison of patients whose GPs were aware (P(+/+)) of their patients’ depressive symptomatology and those whose GPs were unaware (P(+/−)). Compared were cases with utilisation versus all others (no utilisation and cases with no available information, respectively). Absolute and relative frequencies were given

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