The impact of partial-oral endocarditis treatment on anxiety and depression in the POET trial
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Background: The Partial-Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Endocarditis Trial (POET) found that partial-oral outpatient treatment was non-inferior to conventional in-hospital intravenous treatment in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis. We examined the impact of treatment strategy on levels of anxiety and depression. Methods: Patients completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) at randomization, at antibiotic completion, and after month 3 and month 6. Changes in anxiety and depression (each subdimension 0–21, high scores indicating worse) were calculated using a repeated measure analysis of covariance model with primary assessment after 6 months. Change in score of 1.7 represented a minimal clinical important difference (MCID). Results: Among the 400 patients enrolled in the POET trial, 263 (66%) completed HADS at randomization with reassessment rates of 86–87% at the three subsequent timepoints. Patients in the partial-oral group and the intravenous group had similar improvements after 6 months in levels of anxiety (−1.8 versus −1.6, P = 0.62) and depression (−2.1 versus −1.9, P = 0.63), although patients in the partial-oral group had numerically lower levels of anxiety and depression throughout. An improvement in MCID scores after 6 months was reported by 47% versus 45% (p = 0.80) patients for anxiety and by 51% versus 54% (p = 0.70) for depression. Conclusion: Patients with endocarditis receiving partial-oral outpatient treatment reported similar significant improvements in anxiety and depression at 6 months, as compared to conventionally treated, but numerically lower levels throughout. These findings support the usefulness of partial-oral treatment.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 110718 |
Journal | Journal of Psychosomatic Research |
Volume | 154 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISSN | 0022-3999 |
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Publication status | Published - 2022 |
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- Antibiotic, Anxiety, Cardiovascular disease, Depression, Endocarditis
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