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ArticleInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2025

Elisabeth Gustavsson, Marie-Louise Södersved Källestedt, Åsa Revenäs

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Article in International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Elisabeth GustavssonSection of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Region Västmanland, Västerås, Sweden.ORCID 0009-0009-7562-6757
Marie-Louise Södersved KällestedtCentre for Innovation, Research and Education, Region Västmanland, Västerås, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6605-4528
Åsa RevenäsCentre for Innovation, Research and Education, Region Västmanland, Västerås, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-3419-9292

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDespite evidence that structured, multidisciplinary care for people with advanced heart failure (AHF) significantly enhances patients' quality of life, critical questions remain regarding how such care should be optimally designed. To improve the quality of life for people with AHF, healthcare professionals must deepen their understanding of what these patients genuinely need and how best to meet them in their illness trajectory.

aimTo describe patients' experience of living with advanced heart failure in Sweden.

methodsFifteen patients with AHF from a medium-sized hospital in Sweden were recruited for a qualitative interview study. Content analyses were conducted.

resultsLiving with AHF was viewed as life changing. The overarching theme,

conclusionThis study provides valuable insights in how patients with AHF experience their life and need care. The results highlight the need for health care to provide support to help patients cope with emotional, social, spiritual and practical everyday life situations to ease self-care.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalHeart FailureQuality of LifeAgedAged, 80 and overEmotionsFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchSelf CareSwedencommunicationend-of-life careHeart failurenursingpalliative carequality of life

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PMCPMC12581781

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