ArticlePloS one2020
Evaluating emotional distress and health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure and their family caregivers: Testing dyadic dynamics using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.
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- Dyadic Health Literacy and Its Association with Care Collaboration and Satisfaction in Heart Failure Patient-Caregiver Dyads: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
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- Partner effects on caregiver and care recipient depressed mood: heterogeneity across health condition and relationship type.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Factors affecting the quality of life of family caregivers of patients with heart failure: A cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2022Article
- Heart Failure Care: Testing Dyadic Dynamics Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM)-A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The impact of anxiety on the cognitive function of informal Parkinson's disease caregiver: Evidence from task-based and resting-state fNIRS.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
purpose1) To compare levels of emotional symptoms and health-related quality of life between patients with heart failure and their family caregivers; and 2) to examine whether patients' and caregivers' emotional symptoms were associated with their own, as well as their partner's health-related quality of life.
methodIn this cross-sectional study, 41 patients-caregiver dyads (78% male patients, aged 68.6 years; and 83% female caregivers, aged 65.8 years) completed all nine dimensions of the Brief Symptom Inventory and the Minnesota Living with Heart failure Questionnaire. Dyadic data were analysed for 6 sub-scales of the Brief Symptom Inventory, using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.
resultsThere were no statistically significant differences in emotional symptoms and health-related quality of life between patients with heart failure and their caregivers. Patients' and caregivers' emotional symptoms were associated with their own health-related quality of life. Caregivers' anxiety, phobic anxiety, obsession-compulsion, depression and hostility negatively influenced their partner's (i.e. the patient's) health-related quality of life. There were no partner effects of patients' emotional symptoms on the health-related quality of life of caregivers.
conclusionsThe results of this study suggest that patients may be particularly vulnerable to the emotional distress, i.e. thoughts, impulses and actions of their caregivers. It may be possible to improve patients' health-related quality of life by targeting specific detrimental emotional symptoms of caregivers.
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