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Living with heart failure without realising : A qualitative patient study
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- Andersson, Lena (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Centrum för klinisk forskning i Sörmland (CKFD)
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- Eriksson, Irene (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för vård och natur,Centrum för klinisk forskning i Sörmland (CKFD)
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- Nordgren, Lena (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mälardalens högskola,Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd,Centre for Clinical Research, Sörmland, Uppsala University, Sweden,Centrum för klinisk forskning i Sörmland (CKFD)
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- MA Healthcare Ltd. 2012
- 2012
- English.
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In: British Journal of Community Nursing. - : MA Healthcare Ltd.. - 1462-4753 .- 2052-2215. ; 17:12, s. 630-637
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Abstract
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- Heart failure is an important problem in Swedish primary healthcare as in the UK. In spite of that little is known about how people with heart failure experience support from primary healthcare. This paper investigates how people with heart failure experience support in primary healthcare. Semi structured interviews were conducted with five men and five women, born 1922-1951. The interviews were analyzed with qualitative content analysis in accordance with Graneheim and Lundman (2004). The participants experienced they had not received information about their diagnosis or about the cause of their condition. They had not been informed they had heart failure. Instead the participants believed their symptoms were caused by age, thus being part of normal ageing. They did not experience they needed care or support to cope with illness or disease. Instead their main needs for support in daily life concerned help with practical matters.There is a risk primary healthcare abandons people with heart failure meaning the patients are forced to develop strategies on their own in order to manage symptoms. When inadequately informed there is also a risk they make up their own explanations signifying possible difficulties to handle their health situation.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Heart failure
- Patient information
- Primary healthcare
- Support
- aged
- article
- attitude to health
- female
- health care delivery
- health care quality
- human
- male
- middle aged
- primary health care
- qualitative research
- social support
- Sweden
- very elderly
- Aged
- 80 and over
- Health Services Accessibility
- Humans
- Quality of Health Care
- Medical sciences
- Medicin
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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