Informal Caregivers' Experiences with Performing Telemonitoring in Heart Failure Care at Home-A Qualitative Study.
Ina Thon AamodtIrene LieEdita LycholipAnna StrömbergTiny JaarsmaJelena CelutkieneRagnhild HellesøPublished in: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Informal caregivers performed non-invasive telemonitoring for the first time in this study. Their experiences were of a sequential process that included access to support from health care professionals, establishing a routine together, and access to nurses or physicians in HF care as part of mastering. This study highlights involving informal caregivers and persons with HF together in the implementation and future research of telemonitoring in HF care.