Living with heart failure without realising: a qualitative patient study.
Br J Community Nurs
; 17(12): 630, 632-7, 2012 Dec.
Article
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| ID: mdl-23550442
ABSTRACT
Heart failure is an important problem in Swedish primary healthcare as in the U.K. In spite of that little is known about how people with heart failure experience support from primary healthcare. This paper investigates how people with heartfailure experience support in primary healthcare. Semi structured interviews were conducted with five men and five women, born 1922-1951. The interviews were analyzed with qualitative content analysis in accordance with Graneheim and Lundman (2004). The participants experienced they had not received information about their diagnosis or about the cause of their condition. They had not been informed they had heart failure. Instead the participants believed their symptoms were caused by age, thus being part of normal ageing. They did not experience they needed care or support to cope with illness or disease. Instead their main needs for support in daily life concerned help with practical matters.There is a risk primary healthcare abandons people with heart failure meaning the patients are forced to develop strategies on their own in order to manage symptoms. When inadequately informed there is also a risk they make up their own explanations signifying possible difficulties to handle their health situation.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Atención Primaria de Salud
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Calidad de la Atención de Salud
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Apoyo Social
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Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud
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Insuficiencia Cardíaca
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Br J Community Nurs
Asunto de la revista:
ENFERMAGEM
Año:
2012
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Suecia