Introduction:

The present study identified depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure (HF), using the EPD.3PO rapid test.

Method:

A cross sectional descriptive, non-probabilistic observational study. One hundred patients, over 18 years old, with stable heart failure, without depression, where recruited for this study in a clinic in Florencia Caqueta, Colombia. Previous signature a voluntary consent demographic data were taken and the EPD 3PO rapid test was applied to each patient in order to find depressive symptoms in these patients.

Results:

From the EPD 3PO rapid test 64% of patients answered positively to the question: Have you felt sad or hopeless? 38% answered affirmatively to the question Have you presented a loss of interest in carrying out daily activities? And 17% to, have you thought about giving up living? Had a positive answer, so the test was positive for majority of patients who was applied.

Conclusions:

Patients with heart failure should have undetected depressive symptos so the EPD 3PO rapid test could be an important screening tool the do an early detection of depression on this type o patients.