Addressing spouses unique needs after cardiac surgery when recovery is complicated by heart failure

Ågren, SusannaLund University,Lunds universitet,Östergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Omvårdnad,Hälsouniversitetet,Thorax-kärlkliniken,Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper,Medicinska fakulteten,Department of Health Sciences,Faculty of Medicine (author)

BACKGROUND: Cardiac surgery places extensive stress on spouses who often are more worried than the patients themselves. Spouses can experience difficult and demanding situations when the partner becomes critically ill. OBJECTIVES: To identify, describe, and conceptualize the individual needs of spouses of patients with complications of heart failure after cardiac surgery. METHODS: Grounded theory using a mix of systematic coding, data analysis, and theoretical sampling was performed. Spouses, 10 women and 3 men between 39 and 85 years, were interviewed. RESULTS: During analysis, the core category of confirmation was identified as describing the individual needs of the spouses. The core category theoretically binds together three underlying subcategories: security, rest for mind and body, and inner strength. Confirmation facilitated acceptance and improvement of mental and physical health among spouses. CONCLUSIONS: By identifying spouses needs for security, rest for mind and body, and inner strength, health care professionals can confirm these needs throughout the caring process, from the critical care period and throughout rehabilitation at home. Interventions to confirm spouses needs are important because they are vital to the patients recovery.

Hollman Frisman, GunillaLinköpings universitet,Omvårdnad,Hälsouniversitetet(Swepub:liu)gunho49 (author)
Berg, SörenLund University,Lunds universitet,Östergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Thoraxkirurgi,Hälsouniversitetet,Thorax-kärlkliniken,Öron-, näs- och halssjukdomar, Lund,Sektion IV,Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Lund,Medicinska fakulteten,Otorhinolaryngology (Lund),Section IV,Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund,Faculty of Medicine(Swepub:lu)so5081be (author)
Svedjeholm, RolfÖstergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Thoraxkirurgi,Hälsouniversitetet,Thorax-kärlkliniken,Institutionen för medicin och hälsa,Hjärtcentrum(Swepub:liu)rolsv84 (author)
Strömberg, AnnaÖstergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Omvårdnad,Hälsouniversitetet,Kardiologiska kliniken(Swepub:liu)annst40 (author)
Linköpings universitetOmvårdnad (creator_code:org_t)

By the author/editor: Ågren, Susanna; Hollman Frisman, ...; Berg, Sören; Svedjeholm, Rolf; Strömberg, Anna

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MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES: MEDICAL AND HEAL ...; and Health Sciences; and Nursing

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