Nancy Frasure-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 171628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Frasure-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Frasure-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | FRASURE-SMITH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | From the Research Center (N.F.-S., F.L., M.T.), Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal; Department of Psychiatry (N.F.-S., F.L.), McGill University, Montreal; and Departments of Psychiatry (N.F.-S., F.L.) and Medicine (M.T.), University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Design and Rationale for a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Citalopram for Depression in Coronary Artery Disease (CREATE)
Objective: Recognition that depression is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients has augmented the need for evidence-based treatment guidelines. This article presents the design of a multisite, Canadian trial of the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), an empirically supported, depression-focused therapy, and the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor citalop…
Common Genetic Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms and Coronary Artery Disease
Objective: Although it is well established that depressive symptoms are associated with recurrent cardiac events among cardiac patients and novel cardiac events among participants with no known coronary artery disease (CAD), the nature of this association remains unclear. In this regard, little attention has been paid to the possibility that common genetic vulnerability contributes to both depressive symptoms and CAD. In this paper, we review the…
Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
Objective: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened an interdisciplinary working group of experts to develop recommendations for the assessment and treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Method: Consensus of experts. Results: Our current recommendations are that the Beck Depression Inventory-I be employed for epidemiological studies of depression and CHD, that the Patient Health Questionnaire 2-item v…
Reflections on Depression as a Cardiac Risk Factor
OBJECTIVE: Major North American cardiology organizations do not currently list depression among the officially recognized cardiac risk factors, yet many behavioral medicine specialists believe depression to be an important risk. We wondered what was missing from the available data. METHODS: The Medline, Current Contents, and PsychInfo databases were used to perform a systematic review of the literature linking depression and depressive symptoms w…
The Interheart Study
Sheps, David S. MD, MSPH; Frasure-Smith, Nancy PhD; Freedland, Kenneth E. PhD; Carney, Robert M. PhD Author Information
Five-Year Risk of Cardiac Mortality in Relation to Initial Severity and One-Year Changes in Depression Symptoms After Myocardial Infarction
Background — Although previous research demonstrated an independent link between depression symptoms and cardiac mortality after myocardial infarction (MI), depression was assessed only once, and a dose-response relationship was not evaluated. Methods and Results — We administered the Beck Depression Inventory to 896 post-MI patients during admission and at 1 year. Five-year survival was ascertained using Medicare data. We observed a significant …
Long-Term Survival Differences Among Low-Anxious, High-Anxious and Repressive Copers Enrolled in the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial
Objective This study reports 5-year outcomes from the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial, a randomized, controlled trial of monthly telephone monitoring of psychological distress and home nursing visits in a sample of 1376 patients. It focuses on differences in long-term program impact associated with patients’ sex and baseline anxiety/repressor coping styles. The potential mediating roles of medications, medical care utilization, and chang…
Clinical Implications of a Reduction in Psychological Distress on Cardiac Prognosis in Patients Participating in a Psychosocial Intervention Program
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this secondary analysis was to examine the relationships between a reduction in psychological distress and long-term cardiac and psychological outcomes in post-myocardial infarction patients who participated in a randomized trial of home-based psychosocial nursing interventions (the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial [M-HART]). Gender differences were considered. METHODS: We studied 433 patients (36.0% women) fro…
The Seduction of Death
University of Montreal and Montreal Heart Institute (Lesperance). McGill University and Montreal Heart Institute (Frasure-Smith)
Gender, Depression, and One-Year Prognosis After Myocardial Infarction
Depression in hospital after MI is a significant predictor of 1-year cardiac mortality for women as well as for men, and its impact is largely independent of other post-MI risks
Major Depression Before and After Myocardial Infarction
The prevalence and prognostic impact of previous depression, depression in the hospital, and depression after discharge were studied in 222 patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction (MI). Patients were interviewed 1 week, 6 months, and 12 months after the index MI using a modified version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS); patients also completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Patients or family members were recontacted at …
Depression and 18-Month Prognosis After Myocardial Infarction
Background We previously reported that major depression in patients in the hospital after a myocardial infarction (MI) substantially increases the risk of mortality during the first 6 months. We examined the impact of depression over 18 months and present additional evidence concerning potential mechanisms linking depression and mortality. Methods and Results Two-hundred twenty-two patients responded to a modified version of the National Institut…
Depression Following Myocardial Infarction
OBJECTIVE: To determine if the diagnosis of major depression in patients hospitalized following myocardial infarction (MI) would have an independent impact on cardiac mortality over the first 6 months after discharge. DESIGN: Prospective evaluation of the impact of depression assessed using a modified version of the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule for major depressive episode. Cox proportional hazards regression …
Abstracts and Reviews
PREVIOUS ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : BODIES UNDER SEIGE: SELF-MUTILATION IN CULTURE AND PSYCHIATRY by ARMANDO R. FAVAZZA. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. $30.00, 270 pages
Abstracts and Reviews
Abstracts and Reviews
Child-Rearing Values
Choosing the Language of Instruction for One's Children
It is not unusual in Quebec to find English-Canadian parents sending their children to French language schools and French-Canadian parents sending their children to English language schools. Why some parents decide on this form of language experience for their children was the focus of this investigation. Examined in some detail were the ethnic identity patterns and motivations of selected subgroups of French-and English-Canadian parents, who wer…
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Choosing the Language of Instruction for One's Children
It is not unusual in Quebec to find English-Canadian parents sending their children to French language schools and French-Canadian parents sending their children to English language schools. Why some parents decide on this form of language experience for their children was the focus of this investigation. Examined in some detail were the ethnic identity patterns and motivations of selected subgroups of French-and English-Canadian parents, who wer…
Child-Rearing Values
Abstracts and Reviews
Abstracts and Reviews
Abstracts and Reviews
PREVIOUS ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : BODIES UNDER SEIGE: SELF-MUTILATION IN CULTURE AND PSYCHIATRY by ARMANDO R. FAVAZZA. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. $30.00, 270 pages
Depression Following Myocardial Infarction
OBJECTIVE: To determine if the diagnosis of major depression in patients hospitalized following myocardial infarction (MI) would have an independent impact on cardiac mortality over the first 6 months after discharge. DESIGN: Prospective evaluation of the impact of depression assessed using a modified version of the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule for major depressive episode. Cox proportional hazards regression …
Depression and 18-Month Prognosis After Myocardial Infarction
Background We previously reported that major depression in patients in the hospital after a myocardial infarction (MI) substantially increases the risk of mortality during the first 6 months. We examined the impact of depression over 18 months and present additional evidence concerning potential mechanisms linking depression and mortality. Methods and Results Two-hundred twenty-two patients responded to a modified version of the National Institut…
Major Depression Before and After Myocardial Infarction
The prevalence and prognostic impact of previous depression, depression in the hospital, and depression after discharge were studied in 222 patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction (MI). Patients were interviewed 1 week, 6 months, and 12 months after the index MI using a modified version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS); patients also completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Patients or family members were recontacted at …
The Seduction of Death
University of Montreal and Montreal Heart Institute (Lesperance). McGill University and Montreal Heart Institute (Frasure-Smith)
Gender, Depression, and One-Year Prognosis After Myocardial Infarction
Depression in hospital after MI is a significant predictor of 1-year cardiac mortality for women as well as for men, and its impact is largely independent of other post-MI risks
Clinical Implications of a Reduction in Psychological Distress on Cardiac Prognosis in Patients Participating in a Psychosocial Intervention Program
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this secondary analysis was to examine the relationships between a reduction in psychological distress and long-term cardiac and psychological outcomes in post-myocardial infarction patients who participated in a randomized trial of home-based psychosocial nursing interventions (the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial [M-HART]). Gender differences were considered. METHODS: We studied 433 patients (36.0% women) fro…
Five-Year Risk of Cardiac Mortality in Relation to Initial Severity and One-Year Changes in Depression Symptoms After Myocardial Infarction
Background — Although previous research demonstrated an independent link between depression symptoms and cardiac mortality after myocardial infarction (MI), depression was assessed only once, and a dose-response relationship was not evaluated. Methods and Results — We administered the Beck Depression Inventory to 896 post-MI patients during admission and at 1 year. Five-year survival was ascertained using Medicare data. We observed a significant …
Long-Term Survival Differences Among Low-Anxious, High-Anxious and Repressive Copers Enrolled in the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial
Objective This study reports 5-year outcomes from the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial, a randomized, controlled trial of monthly telephone monitoring of psychological distress and home nursing visits in a sample of 1376 patients. It focuses on differences in long-term program impact associated with patients’ sex and baseline anxiety/repressor coping styles. The potential mediating roles of medications, medical care utilization, and chang…
The Interheart Study
Sheps, David S. MD, MSPH; Frasure-Smith, Nancy PhD; Freedland, Kenneth E. PhD; Carney, Robert M. PhD Author Information
Reflections on Depression as a Cardiac Risk Factor
OBJECTIVE: Major North American cardiology organizations do not currently list depression among the officially recognized cardiac risk factors, yet many behavioral medicine specialists believe depression to be an important risk. We wondered what was missing from the available data. METHODS: The Medline, Current Contents, and PsychInfo databases were used to perform a systematic review of the literature linking depression and depressive symptoms w…
Design and Rationale for a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Citalopram for Depression in Coronary Artery Disease (CREATE)
Objective: Recognition that depression is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients has augmented the need for evidence-based treatment guidelines. This article presents the design of a multisite, Canadian trial of the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), an empirically supported, depression-focused therapy, and the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor citalop…
Common Genetic Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms and Coronary Artery Disease
Objective: Although it is well established that depressive symptoms are associated with recurrent cardiac events among cardiac patients and novel cardiac events among participants with no known coronary artery disease (CAD), the nature of this association remains unclear. In this regard, little attention has been paid to the possibility that common genetic vulnerability contributes to both depressive symptoms and CAD. In this paper, we review the…
Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
Objective: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened an interdisciplinary working group of experts to develop recommendations for the assessment and treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Method: Consensus of experts. Results: Our current recommendations are that the Beck Depression Inventory-I be employed for epidemiological studies of depression and CHD, that the Patient Health Questionnaire 2-item v…
Cardiac Health and Mental Health (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Internal Medicine (10 works) · Depression (economics) (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Anxiety (6 works) · Beck Depression Inventory (5 works) · Myocardial infarction (5 works)