Relationship of symptom stress, care needs, social support, and meaning in life to quality of life in patients with heart failure from the acute to chronic stages: a longitudinal study.
Min-Hui LiuAi-Fu ChiouChao-Hung WangWen-Pin YuMei-Hui LinPublished in: Health and quality of life outcomes (2021)
Although symptom distress is associated with QOL after acute decompensated HF, QOL cannot be improved only by improvement in symptoms. With differential duration of improvement in each factor, the integration of alleviation in care needs and strengthening in social support and meaning in life might provide additional benefits in QOL.
Keyphrases
- social support
- depressive symptoms
- palliative care
- healthcare
- liver failure
- advanced cancer
- quality improvement
- heart failure
- pain management
- affordable care act
- respiratory failure
- hepatitis b virus
- ejection fraction
- atrial fibrillation
- intensive care unit
- acute heart failure
- aortic dissection
- stress induced
- chronic pain
- acute respiratory distress syndrome