Fig 1.
Conceptual Framework of this study.
Conceptual Framework of uncertainty of illness and depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure. NHYA, New York Heart Association.
Table 1.
Characteristics of participants (N = 147).
Table 2.
Scores of measurements.
Fig 2.
The original model of uncertainty to predict HRQoL for heart failure patients. NYHA, New York Heart Association functional class, EF, ejection fraction. *p-value < 0.05, **p-value<0.01, ***p-value < 0.001.
Fig 3.
The modified model of uncertainty to predict HRQoL for heart failure patients. *p-value < 0.05, **p-value<0.01, ***p-value < 0.001.
Table 3.
The model fit indexes of structural equation models.
Table 4.
Direct, indirect and total effects.