Health-Related Quality of Life and Use of Hospital Services by Patients with Heart Failure and Their Family Caregivers: A Multicenter Case-Control Study.

Eva Timonet AndreuJosé Miguel Morales-AsencioPurificación Alcalá GutierrezConcepcion Cruzado AlvarezGracia López-MoyanoAna Mora BanderasInmaculada López-LeivaJosé Carlos Canca-Sanchez

Published in: Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (2020)

These results can be used to identify family caregivers of people with heart failure at risk of suffering a deterioration in their health-related quality of life. Increased use of hospital services is an independent predictor of the deterioration of the family caregivers' health-related quality of life. Since clinical nurses are the main provider who gives support and education to family caregivers, they should be alert to this situation and individualize interventions to prevent this deterioration.

Keyphrases

healthcare
primary care
heart failure
mental health
acute care
physical activity
left ventricular
adverse drug
clinical trial
emergency department
cross sectional
cardiac resynchronization therapy
acute heart failure
electronic health record