A randomized trial of a nurse-led educational intervention in patients with heart failure and their caregivers: impact on caregiver outcomes.

Maria ThodiVasiliki Bistola Ekaterini Lambrinou Kalliopi KeramidaPetros NikolopoulosJohn Parissis Dimitrios Farmakis Gerasimos S Filippatos

Published in: European journal of cardiovascular nursing (2022)

A nurse-led, 6-month educational intervention on recently hospitalized HF patients/caregiver dyads, delivered through either combined home visits and telephone sessions or telephone sessions only, reduced caregiver burden and feelings of guilt, with lesser effect on HR-QoL.

Keyphrases

randomized controlled trial
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