Informal caregivers of heart failure patients experience significant burden and require greater involvement with healthcare professionals to improve their situation.
Supports considering caregiver needs in HF management; leaves open optimal involvement strategies.
Informal caregivers' daily life involves decisive changes that are experienced as burdensome. They handled their new situations using different strategies to preserve a sense of "self" and of "us." Informal caregivers express a need for more involvement with healthcare professionals, which may facilitate informal caregivers' situation and improve the dyadic congruence in the relation with their relative.
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