Living with advanced heart failure: A qualitative study.

Caterina ChecaLaura Medina-PeruchaMiguel-Ángel MuñozJosé María Verdú-RotellarAnna Berenguera

Published in: PloS one (2020)

Locus of control in advanced HF was perceived as external. Healthcare professionals should adapt emotional health interventions in patients with advanced HF based on a gender perspective. Social support was found to be crucial in facing the disease. Patients reported poor communication with healthcare professionals.

Keyphrases

social support
depressive symptoms
heart failure
mental health
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
healthcare
physical activity
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
acute heart failure
left ventricular
atrial fibrillation
cardiac resynchronization therapy
patient reported outcomes