Treating the mind and body: implementation of a psychosocial wellbeing assessment in the deep vein thrombosis clinic
Emma Gee, Victoria Speed, Philip Alexander, Simon Guppy, Jig Patel, Sinead Duffy, Rachel Clapham, Roopen Arya
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, England, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Highlights
• Following DVT diagnosis, most patients coped well psychologically in the acute phase
• Almost a fifth of patients reported significant levels of distress following DVT diagnosis
• No specific patient characteristics emerged as being predictive of increased distress
• Fear, anxiety, pain, reduced mobility and impaired ability to perform activities all contributed to distress following DVT