Living with moderate-severe chronic heart failure as a middle-aged person

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-13

  Nordgren, Lena ^a   Asp, Margareta ^b   Fagerberg, Ingegerd ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; Illness experience; Middle age; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; OPTIMISM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF EFFICACY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33845388486     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306296387     Document Type: Article

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