Key result
Living with CHF imposes profound personal disruption, requiring acceptance, hope, and adaptation to mortality.
Why the study?
The complicated situation experienced by chronic heart failure patients affects their entire well-being but clinical practice continues to fail to adequately respond to their demands.
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Living with chronic heart failure involves profound personal changes, a need for hope and normalcy, and constant awareness of mortality, highlighting the need for holistic patient-centered care.
The complicated situation experienced by chronic heart failure (CHF) patients affects their entire well-being but clinical practice continues to fail to adequately respond to their demands. The aim of this study was to understand the meaning of living with CHF from the patient's perspective. A hermeneutic phenomenological study was conducted according to Van Manen's phenomenology of practice method. Individual conversational interviews were held with 20 outpatients with CHF. Six main themes emerged from the analysis: (1) Living with CHF involves a profound change in the person; (2) The person living with CHF has to accept their situation; (3) The person with CHF needs to feel that their life is normal and demonstrate it to others; (4) The person with CHF needs to have hope; (5) Having CHF makes the person continuously aware of the possibility of dying; (6) The person with CHF feels that it negatively influences their close environment.
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Olano‐Lizarraga et al. (2020) studied chronic heart failure (n=20). Living with chronic heart failure was evaluated on Meaning of living with CHF from the patient's perspective. Living with chronic heart failure involves profound personal change, the need for acceptance, hope, maintaining normalcy, awareness of mortality, and perceived negative impacts on close environments.
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