Living with heart failure: Partner perspectives

Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-137

  Luttik, Marie Louise ^a   Blaauwbroek, Amarins ^b   Dijker, Anton ^c   Jaarsma, Tiny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Isala Klinieken Zwolle ^*  (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experience; Heart failure; Needs; Partners

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES;

EID: 33947724866     PISSN: 08894655     EISSN: 15505049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005082-200703000-00010     Document Type: Article

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