Across the measurement stages, both patients and their spouses exhibited a decreasing trend in scores for fear of disease recurrence and depressive symptoms.
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Longitudinal analysis of an actor-partner interdependence model of recurrent fear and depressive symptoms in elderly patients and caregivers after postoperative adjacent vertebral refracture: a prospective longitudinal study in China.
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The partner, or ‘object,’ effect was partially significant, with the depressive symptoms of patients and spouses positively predicting each other’s depressive symptoms in the next stage.