Effectiveness of Social Problem-solving Skills Training on theDepression in Systolic Heart Failure Patients in Kermanshah

Background: heart failure is common worldwide, and it is still expanding. psychological factors such as depression are moreeffective on the consequences of this disease, which is necessary to seek a solution for controlling.objectives: this study aimed to investigate the effect of social problem-solving skills training (spsst) on depression in patients withheart failure.methods: this semi-experimental study was conducted on two groups of ten male patients with heart failure in kermanshah, iran,randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. in the intervention group, ten one-hour sessions of spsst were done. thebeck depression inventory (bdi-13) was completed three times before, after, and three months after the intervention in both groups.the data were analyzed in spss v. 23 with t-test and ancova to compare the groups.results: there was a significant difference in the depression scores of the intervention group in the post-test (p = 0.000) andfollow-up (p = 0.003) than before the intervention. however, there was no significant difference in the depression scores of thecontrol group in all stages (p > 0.05).conclusions: spsst could improve the depression of patients with heart failure and prevent its complications, which isrecommended for controlling the depression of heart failure patients.