Informal Caregivers&apos; Experiences with Performing Telemonitoring in Heart Failure Care at Home-A Qualitative Study.

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Abstract

Informal caregivers have an important role in caring for family members at home. Supporting persons with a chronic illness such as heart failure (HF) in managing their self-care is reported to be a challenge and telemonitoring has been suggested to be of support.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Healthcare (Basel)

Title: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)

Publisher: MDPI AG

ISSN: 2227-9032

ISSN (Print): 2227-9032

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 02 2022

Volume: 10

Issue: 7

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[1 ] Centre for Patient-Centered Heart and Lung Research, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, 0450 Oslo, Norway.

[2 ] Department of Masters and Postgraduate Studies, Lovisenberg Diaconal University College, 0456 Oslo, Norway.

[3 ] Department of Health Sciences in Gjøvik, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway.

[4 ] Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 03101 Vilnius, Lithuania.

[5 ] Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Centre of Cardiology and Angiology, Vilnius University Santaros Clinics, 08661 Vilnius, Lithuania.

[6 ] Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.

[7 ] Department of Cardiology, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.

[8 ] Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0456 Oslo, Norway.

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Publisher Item ID: healthcare10071237

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10071237

PMC ID: 9324585

PubMed ID: 35885765

SO-VID: dec96fa1-c8a1-4460-8930-4de110d0a141

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Keywords: heart failure,eHealth,informal caregiver,self-care,telemonitoring

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Keywords: heart failure, eHealth, informal caregiver, self-care, telemonitoring

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