Why the study?
How do self-care behaviors in adults with chronic heart failure and their spousal caregivers influence each other's quality of life?
How do self-care behaviors in adults with chronic heart failure and their spousal caregivers influence each other's quality of life?
Self-care behaviors and caregiver confidence have interdependent effects on the physical and mental quality of life of both heart failure patients and their spouses.
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May indicate physical QOL trade-offs in dyadic self-care; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Vellone et al. (2013) studied this question.
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