Key result
Heart disease patients and families report severe multidimensional crises driven by inadequate disease education.
Why the study?
Patients with heart disease and their families experience multiple crises affecting physical, psychological, financial, and educational aspects, which are not well understood.
Patients with heart disease and their families experience significant physical, psychological, financial, and educational crises, highlighting an urgent need for improved patient and family education and support strategies in the health system.
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Highlights educational gaps for heart disease families; leaves open effective support interventions.
Yasrebirad et al. (2022) studied Heart disease (n=16). Living with heart disease was evaluated on Perceptions of living with heart disease. Patients with heart disease and their families experience profound physical, financial, and psychological crises, and feel abandoned by the healthcare system due to a lack of adequate disease education.
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