Health‐Related Quality of Life and Use of Hospital Services by Patients with Heart Failure and Their Family Caregivers: A Multicenter Case‐Control Study
Background Heart failure (HF) causes high rates of hospital admissions. It is known that disease progression impacts the health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) of both patients and caregivers, yet to date, this finding is based on cross‐sectional studies with limited samples. Objectives The study ai...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of nursing scholarship 2020-03, Vol.52 (2), p.217-228 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background
Heart failure (HF) causes high rates of hospital admissions. It is known that disease progression impacts the health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) of both patients and caregivers, yet to date, this finding is based on cross‐sectional studies with limited samples.
Objectives
The study aim is to analyze the relationship between HF patients’ use of hospital services (a proxy for disease progression) and the HRQoL of their family caregivers.
Methods
This work is a multicenter nested case‐control study on a population of patients admitted to hospitals in southern Spain due to heart failure. The sample comprised 530 patient‐caregiver dyads. Hospital admission data were retrospectively collected for the 5 years prior to inclusion in the study. Bivariate analyses and multivariate logistic regression were used to determine associations between patient deterioration and caregivers’ quality of life.
Results
Patients’ use of hospital services was associated with worsened quality of life for family caregivers, with an overall OR of 1.48 (95% CI: 1.23‐1.79). A positive correlation was found between patients’ perceptions of their physical health and the perceived mental health of caregivers (r = 0.127, p = 0.004) and between the perceived mental health of both (r = 0.291; p |
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ISSN: | 1527-6546 1547-5069 |
DOI: | 10.1111/jnu.12545 |