8-2 Final Submission of Final Project Article Review

Article Findings

Deanna Buchanan

SNHU

The first article was “Gender-specific characteristics of individuals with depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease” (Doering et al., 2010).

This article discusses different aspects of life of individuals with depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease (CHD). Specifically, the author identifies the differences of anxiety, education, employment and social status between males and females. A cross-sectional design was used where 1951 participants with CHD and depressive symptoms were given questionnaires that measure the different characteristics. According to the results, less employment, poor education and high anxiety were observed in females compared to males. It also reports that females are more likely to be single compared to males. Perception of lower control over health was high in females compared to males.

The author reported odds ratio for comparison of unemployment (OR 2.52, P < .001), education (OR 2.52, P < .001), marital status (3.61, P < .001), anxiety (OR 1.14, P < .01) and perception of lower control of health (OR 1.34, P < .01) between females and males. The p-values are less than the level of significance (0.05) indicating the differences are statistically significant.

The second article was; “Gender differences in self-reported symptoms of depression among patients with acute coronary syndrome” (Frazier et al., 2012).

In this article, depressive symptoms and somatic depressive symptoms were examined on patients hospitalized with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) to determine whether there was a difference in both between males and females. Results showed that women had greater depressive syndrome compared to males. It also shows that somatic depressive symptom was more prevalent on women compared to men. These findings are helpful in resources allocation as more resources will be concentrated to the most affected group. Women will be given more attention to stabilize the depression difference.

Descriptive statistics and statistical tests were calculated in this article. Specifically, the mean, standard deviation and p-values for independent samples t-test were calculated to help in comparison of depressive symptoms between males and females. According to the results females had higher mean (mean = 11.89, S.D. = 9.68) than men (mean = 9.00, S.D. = 7.93) (P < 0.000). This helps in making conclusion on whether the differences were statistically significant.

Reference

Doering, L. V., McKinley, S., Riegel, B., Moser, D. K., Meischke, H., Pelter, M. M., & Dracup, K. (2010). Gender-specific characteristics of individuals with depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Critical Care, 40(3), e4–e14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2010.04.002

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Frazier, L., Yu, E., Sanner, J., Liu, F., Udtha, M., Cron, S., & . . . Bogaev, R. C. (2012). Gender differences in self-reported symptoms of depression among patients with acute coronary syndrome. Nursing Research & Practice,1–5. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/109251 http://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=86826621&site=eds-live&scope=site