Does caregiver burden influence outcomes of care in heart failure?
Caregiver burden in heart failure negatively impacts physical, psychological, societal, and functional outcomes, highlighting the need for routine screening and targeted interventions.
Healthcare provider team should screen for caregiver burden and promote healthy behaviors, and strategies to improve quality of life. Further studies should include caregivers as care team members and embed social networking in the interventions for reducing HF caregiver burden. The caregivers' burden could influence the poor outcomes of care, including physical, psychological, societal, and functional dimensions. Future interventions should develop to alleviate HF caregiver burden.
Suksatan et al. (Sat,) studied this question.