Background A previous systematic review reporting the contributions of informal, unpaid
caregivers to patient heart failure (HF) self-care requires updating to better inform research …

Background: Deficits in quality of care for patients with heart failure (HF) contribute to high
mortality in this population. This qualitative study aimed to understand the barriers and …

Introduction Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves health-related quality of life and reduces
hospital admissions. However, patients with heart failure (HF) often fail to attend centre …

Introduction: Depressive symptoms, negative life changes, poor self-care, and higher
caregiver burden are common in caregivers who assist individuals with heart failure (HF) in …

Background “Benefit finding” is a strengths-based strategy for coping with medical illness
that may be particularly useful for caregivers of people with heart failure given the highly …

Psychosocial factors play an important role in the development and progression of
cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as chronic heart failure (CHF). In particular, psycho …

Registered nurses (RNs) in heart failure (HF) nursing care have a key role in providing
family support, which positively affects the outcome for the patient. Telephone interventions …

Heart failure is a serious and complex chronic illness and family caregivers often assist
these individuals in performing self-care. Unsurprisingly, caregivers often are overwhelmed …

Heart failure (HF) self-care efforts are shared between patients and lay caregivers but are
often badly done yet are also poorly understood by patients, caregivers, and their health …

Abstract Rehabilitation EnAblement in CHronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) is a home-based
cardiac rehabilitation intervention designed for patients with heart failure and their …