Caregiver burden in partners of Heart Failure patients; limited influence of disease severity

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 9, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 695-701

  Luttik, Marie Louise ^a   Jaarsma, Tiny ^a   Veeger, Nic ^a   Tijssen, Jan ^b   Sanderman, Robbert ^c   van Veldhuisen, Dirk J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Burden; Caregiver; Disease severity; Heart Failure; Partners

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34247855871     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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