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Sleep‐disordered breathing, including obstructive sleep apnoea and central sleep apnoea, is a common disorder among patients with chronic heart failure. Obstructive sleep apnoea is often treated with continuous positive airway pressure, but central sleep apnoea lacks a clear treatment option. Knowledge of how sleep‐disordered breathing is experienced (e.g. difficulties and care needs) and handled (e.g. self‐care actions) by the patients is limited, but needed, to provide patient‐centred care.

To explore how newly verified sleep‐disordered breathing is experienced by patients with chronic heart failure.

Data were collected through semi‐structured interviews and analysed with qualitative content analysis. Seventeen participants (14 men, three women), mean age 60 years (range 41–80) diagnosed with chronic heart failure and objectively verified sleep‐disordered breathing (nine …