Treatment burden among patients with heart failure attending cardiac clinic of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT: Emerging evidences hypothesized that patients with heart failure are susceptible to experience treatment burden. Despite this fact, no attempt was made so far to address this neoteric construct in the sub-Saharan African health care context. Hence, this study aimed to assess patients' and health care providers' perspectives on how to decrease treatment burden among patients with heart failure attending the adult cardiac clinic of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH). An explanatory sequential mixed methods study was conducted at the adult cardiac clinic of TASH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from August 01 to September 30, 2021. Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were employed to select participants for quantitative and qualitative studies, respectively. Descriptive analysis was

SUBMITTER: Hassen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640606 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature