Key result
A holistic shared medical appointment approach for congestive heart failure management improved depression, quality of life, health promotion behaviors, systolic blood pressure, and weight.
Why the study?
Congestive heart failure is a costly chronic disease in the United States, prompting evaluation of a holistic shared medical appointment approach to management.
Does a holistic shared medical appointment approach improve depression, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors in patients with congestive heart failure?
Observational
Does a holistic shared medical appointment approach improve depression, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors in patients with congestive heart failure?
A holistic shared medical appointment approach for congestive heart failure management in primary care improves patient-reported outcomes and health-promoting behaviors.
May support holistic shared appointments in HF; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Congestive heart failure is a costly chronic disease within the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a holistic shared medical appointment (SMA) approach to congestive heart failure. Findings suggest the SMA approach improves depression, quality of life (QOL), and health-promoting behaviors. This study implemented congestive heart failure self-management education in primary care using a holistic multidisciplinary approach with SMA to provide evidence-based interventions to improve depression, QOL, and health promotion outcomes. Patients participating in the holistic multidisciplinary SMA experienced improvement in depression, QOL, and health promotion behaviors. A comparison of the means between preintervention and postintervention showed an overall reduction in systolic blood pressure, weight, depression scores, QOL scores, and several indicators of health promotion lifestyle.
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Law et al. (2019) conducted an observational in Congestive heart failure. Holistic shared medical appointment (SMA) vs. Preintervention baseline was evaluated on Depression, quality of life (QOL), and health promotion behaviors. A holistic shared medical appointment approach for congestive heart failure management improved depression, quality of life, health promotion behaviors, systolic blood pressure, and weight.
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