dc.contributor.author | Wingham, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Frost, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Britten, N | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-10T10:08:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-07-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: Caregivers support self-management in heart failure but often experience stress, anxiety and ill health as a result of providing care. AIMS: 1. To identify the factors that contribute to the experience of anguish.2. To understand how caregivers learn to live with what is frequently a challenging and demanding role. METHODS: Individual interviews with caregivers who had been caring for someone with heart failure for a minimum of 6 months. We used thematic analysis to inductively analyse transcripts. RESULTS: Twenty-two caregivers, from three centres in the United Kingdom, took part in individual interviews. The caregivers were aged between 39 and 84 years, and six were men. Twenty were in spousal or partner relationships. We found that caregivers often hide the extent of their emotional stress or anguish. We identified four main themes with explanatory subthemes-emotional impact (fear for the future and sense of hopelessness), role definition (changing sense of who I am, reduced resilience, learning care skills, role conflict and changing role), exclusion (exclusion by the cared-for person and by health professionals and feeling alone) and ignoring one's own health-that were associated with anguish. From these findings, we produced a caregiver needs assessment model in the context of caring for a person with heart failure. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Caregivers have many unmet and hidden needs. Primary care health professionals are well placed to meet the needs of caregivers. The model may be used by health and social care professionals to identify needs and to provide caregivers with targeted practical and emotional support; and for researchers developing interventions to enhance self-management in heart failure. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | All authors have completed the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: This paper presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Programme Grants for Applied Research scheme (RP-PG-1210-12004). For Professor Nicky Britten, this work was partially funded by the UK NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care of the South West Peninsula. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, NIHR or the Department of Health. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 7, article e014126 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014126 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30893 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | BMJ Publishing Group | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28733297 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | anguish | en_GB |
dc.subject | caregivers | en_GB |
dc.subject | carers | en_GB |
dc.subject | family | en_GB |
dc.subject | heart failure | en_GB |
dc.subject | stress | en_GB |
dc.title | Behind the smile: qualitative study of caregivers' anguish and management responses while caring for someone living with heart failure | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-10T10:08:58Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from BMJ Publishing Group via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | BMJ Open | en_GB |