Caregiver burden among Iranian heart failure family caregivers: A descriptive, exploratory, qualitative study

Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-63

  Bahrami, Masoud ^a   Etemadifar, Shahram ^a   Shahriari, Mohsen ^a   Farsani, Alireza Khosravi ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Caregiver burden; family caregiver; heart failure; Iran; nursing; qualitative study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981489994     PISSN: 17359066     EISSN: 22285504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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