The relationship between caregiver contribution to self-care and patient quality of life in heart failure: A longitudinal mediation analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with heart failure may experience poor quality of life due to a variety of physical and psychological symptoms. Quality of life can improve if patients adhere to consistent self-care behaviors. Patient outcomes (i.e., quality of life) are thought to improve as a result of caregiver contribution to self-care. However, uncertainty exists on whether these outcomes improve as a direct result of caregiver contribution to self-care or whether this improvement occurs indirectly through the improvement of patient heart failure self-care behaviors.

Aims

To investigate the influence of caregiver contribution to self-care on quality of life of heart failure people and explore whether patient self-care behaviors mediate such a relationship.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Caggianelli G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10931462 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature