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Qualitative interviews of 14 patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator revealed that their life situation was characterized by trust, adaptability, and empowerment.
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Patients with an ICD experience their life situation through trust, adaptability, and empowerment, suggesting the need for holistic intervention programs.
The purpose of this paper is to describe how a selected group of United States patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator perceived their life situation. A qualitative design based on the phenomenographic approach was chosen to describe the patients' conceptions of their life situation. Fourteen patients-eight men and six women, aged 21-84-were strategically selected to obtain as broad a variation as possible. The descriptive categories to emerge from the analysis of the interviews were trust, adaptability, and empowerment. The category labeled trust describes how patients trusted in the organization around them. The category labeled adaptability describes how patients adapted to living with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator device. The category entitled empowerment describes how patients considered that they received support from family and friends as well as from health care professionals. This study suggests the need for a holistic intervention program comprising family, work, and leisure, focusing on patients' future life situation.
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Bolse et al. (2005) studied Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (n=14). Living with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was evaluated on Perceptions of life situation. Qualitative interviews of 14 patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator revealed that their life situation was characterized by trust, adaptability, and empowerment.
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