Do depression and anxiety affect the lives of people with heart conditions? 🤔Can we prevent, rather than cure, depression and anxiety in people with heart conditions? 🤷‍♀️

Today, we are joined by Susanne Pedersen, Professor of Cardiology Psychology at the University of Southern Denmark. She is a psychologist who has mainly worked in the field of behavioural medicine, particularly the interface between cardiology and psychology.

We discuss how depression and anxiety disorders affect people with heart conditions and how these disorders can further deteriorate people's quality of life. We then talk about the strategies that can be used to prevent the onset of such disorders and how psychologists can help people with heart conditions overcome any difficulties they might experience.

🌐🔬Here, you can find Susanne Pedersen's research papers

• An internet-delivered program and platform for the treatment of depression and anxiety in patients with ischemic heart disease. A research article published in the Informatics for Health and Social Care Journal in 2021
• Integrated care for older multimorbidity heart failure patients. A protocol for a research project published in the ESC Heart Failure Journal in 2023
• Implementation of systematic screening for anxiety and depression in cardiac rehabilitation. A longitudinal study published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 2022.

🎓📱If you want to know more about Susanne Pedersen's work, here you can find her academic profiles.

• LinkedIn
• University of Southern Denmark

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