How do SYMPtoms and management tasks in chronic heart failure imPACT a person's life (SYMPACT)? Protocol for a mixed‐methods study
How do SYMPtoms and management tasks in chronic heart failure imPACT a person's life (SYMPACT)? Protocol for a mixed‐methods study
Aims
Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) struggle to follow self‐care plans, which may lead to worsening illness and poor quality of life. Burden of treatment (BoT) describes this workload and its impact on patients' lives. Suggesting the balance between a patient's treatment workload and their capability to manage it is crucial. If BoT is reduced, self‐care engagement and quality of life may improve. This article describes the SYMPACT study design and methods used to explore how symptoms and management tasks impact CHF patients' lives.
Methods and results
We used a sequential exploratory mixed‐methods design to investigate the interaction between symptoms and BoT in CHF patients.
Conclusions
If symptoms and BoT are intrinsically linked, then the high level of symptoms experienced by CHF patients may lead to increased treatment burden, which likely decreases patients' engagement with self‐care plans. SYMPACT may identify modifiable factors to improve CHF patients' experience.
Burden of treatment, Chronic heart failure, Mixed methods, Self-care, Study design, Symptom burden
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Austin, Rosalynn C.
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Schoonhoven, Lisette
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Richardson, Alison
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Kalra, Paul R.
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May, Carl R.
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Austin, Rosalynn C.
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Schoonhoven, Lisette
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Richardson, Alison
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Kalra, Paul R.
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May, Carl R.
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Austin, Rosalynn C., Schoonhoven, Lisette, Richardson, Alison, Kalra, Paul R. and May, Carl R.
(2020)
How do SYMPtoms and management tasks in chronic heart failure imPACT a person's life (SYMPACT)? Protocol for a mixed‐methods study.
ESC Heart Failure, 7 (6), .
(doi:10.1002/ehf2.13010).
Abstract
Aims
Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) struggle to follow self‐care plans, which may lead to worsening illness and poor quality of life. Burden of treatment (BoT) describes this workload and its impact on patients' lives. Suggesting the balance between a patient's treatment workload and their capability to manage it is crucial. If BoT is reduced, self‐care engagement and quality of life may improve. This article describes the SYMPACT study design and methods used to explore how symptoms and management tasks impact CHF patients' lives.
Methods and results
We used a sequential exploratory mixed‐methods design to investigate the interaction between symptoms and BoT in CHF patients.
Conclusions
If symptoms and BoT are intrinsically linked, then the high level of symptoms experienced by CHF patients may lead to increased treatment burden, which likely decreases patients' engagement with self‐care plans. SYMPACT may identify modifiable factors to improve CHF patients' experience.
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How SYMptoms and management tasks in chronic heart failure imPACT on a person’s life (SYMPACT) Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 August 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 September 2020
Published date: December 2020
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Funding Information:
This work was completed as a part of a fully funded Clinical Academic Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Southampton, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex. This article is independent research funded in part by the NIHR ARC Wessex. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the National Institute for Health Research, NHS or the Department of Health and Social Care.
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© 2020 The Authors. ESC Heart Failure published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology
Keywords:
Burden of treatment, Chronic heart failure, Mixed methods, Self-care, Study design, Symptom burden
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