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Exploring partners' perspectives on participation in heart failure home care: a mixed-method design
Research and Development Unit in Local Health Care and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.
Research Group Nursing Diagnostics, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, The Netherlands.
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9300-6422
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Department of Cardiology, Linköping University, Sweden.
2017 (English)In: Journal of Advanced Nursing, ISSN 0309-2402, E-ISSN 1365-2648, Vol. 73, no 5, p. 1208-1219Article in journal (Refereed)
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Aim. To describe the partners' perspectives on participation in the care for patients with heart failure receiving home care. Background. Partners are often involved in care of patients with heart failure and have an important role in improving patients' well-being and self-care. Partners have described both negative and positive experiences of involvement, but knowledge of how partners of patients with heart failure view participation in care when the patient receives home care is lacking. Design. A convergent parallel mixed-method design was used, including data from interviews and questionnaires. Methods. A purposeful sample of 15 partners was used. Data collection lasted between February 2010 - December 2011. Interviews were analysed with content analysis and data from questionnaires (participation, caregiving, health-related quality of life, depressive symptoms) were analysed statistically. Finally, results were merged, interpreted and labelled as comparable and convergent or as being inconsistent. Results. Partners were satisfied with most aspects of participation, information and contact. Qualitative findings revealed four different aspects of participation: adapting to the caring needs and illness trajectory, coping with caregiving demands, interacting with healthcare providers and need for knowledge to comprehend the health situation. Results showed confirmatory results that were convergent and expanded knowledge that gave a broader understanding of partner participation in this context. Conclusion. The results revealed different levels of partner participation. Heart failure home care included good opportunities for both participation and contact during home visits, necessary to meet partners' ongoing need for information to comprehend the situation.

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Blackwell Munksgaard, 2017. Vol. 73, no 5, p. 1208-1219
Keywords [en]
caregivers, family, heart failure, home care, mixed method, nursing, participation
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Medical and Health Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-15209DOI: 10.1111/jan.13216ISI: 000403110000019PubMedID: 27878851Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85007170253Local ID: 25049OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-15209DiVA, id: diva2:1418730
Available from: 2020-03-30 Created: 2020-03-30 Last updated: 2024-06-18Bibliographically approved

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