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Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure
Heart failure is a chronic syndrome that has physiological, psychological and social effects. The aim of the study was to illuminate the meanings of support as experienced by elderly women with chronic heart failure. Narrative interviews were conducted with five elderly women with chronic heart fail...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v5i2.5064 |
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author | Sundin, Karin Bruce, Elisabeth Barremo, Ann-Sofi |
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description | Heart failure is a chronic syndrome that has physiological, psychological and social effects. The aim of the study was to illuminate the meanings of support as experienced by elderly women with chronic heart failure. Narrative interviews were conducted with five elderly women with chronic heart failure. A phenomenological hermeneutic method of interpretation was used. The meanings of support were experienced by the women out of two perspectives, that is, when support is present and when there is a lack of support. The findings were revealed in two themes: “Feeling confident means support” and “Feeling abandoned”. The women do not wish to be a burden. They want to be independent as much as possible to defend their dignity. An important support to the women is that they are understood and confirmed in their illness. Supportive relations are most valuable, that is, a relationship that supports the women's independence. If there is no supportive relationship, they feel like a burden to others and they feel lonely; this loneliness creates suffering and counteracts wellbeing and health. |
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spelling | pubmed-28759702010-06-03 Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure Sundin, Karin Bruce, Elisabeth Barremo, Ann-Sofi Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Studies Heart failure is a chronic syndrome that has physiological, psychological and social effects. The aim of the study was to illuminate the meanings of support as experienced by elderly women with chronic heart failure. Narrative interviews were conducted with five elderly women with chronic heart failure. A phenomenological hermeneutic method of interpretation was used. The meanings of support were experienced by the women out of two perspectives, that is, when support is present and when there is a lack of support. The findings were revealed in two themes: “Feeling confident means support” and “Feeling abandoned”. The women do not wish to be a burden. They want to be independent as much as possible to defend their dignity. An important support to the women is that they are understood and confirmed in their illness. Supportive relations are most valuable, that is, a relationship that supports the women's independence. If there is no supportive relationship, they feel like a burden to others and they feel lonely; this loneliness creates suffering and counteracts wellbeing and health. CoAction Publishing 2010-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2875970/ /pubmed/20640021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v5i2.5064 Text en ©2010 K.Sudin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Empirical Studies Sundin, Karin Bruce, Elisabeth Barremo, Ann-Sofi Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure |
title | Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure |
title_full | Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure |
title_fullStr | Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure |
title_full_unstemmed | Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure |
title_short | Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure |
title_sort | elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure |
topic | Empirical Studies |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v5i2.5064 |
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